Daily Readings for Friday 21st February 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering.                               Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
​- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all salvation by the grace of God through Christ.


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Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.  




Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - Moses' rod is turned into a serpent: his hand is leprous: he is unwilling to be sent; Aaron is appointed to assist him. Moses departeth from Jethro. God's message to Pharaoh. Zipporah circumciseth her son. Aaron is sent to meet Moses. They go to the Israelites, and the people believe them.
Exodus 4
Preface - Christ admireth the centurion's singular faith, and healeth his absent servant: he raiseth to life the widow's son at Nain: and sendeth back the messengers of John with an account of the miracles they had seen wrought by him: his testimony of John: he reproveth the perverseness of the people, who were not to be won either by the manners of John or himself: he alloweth his feet to be washed and anointed by a woman who had been a sinner; and in a parable sheweth that even the worst of sinners may be forgiven upon the terms of a sincere repentance.
Luke 7



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Daily Light - Morning
I am the LORD which sanctify you.

I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.... And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have served you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Sanctified by God the Father. - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. - The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus....that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ....gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. - Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. - For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. - 'Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
Lev. 20.8; Lev. 20.24,26
Jude 1; Jn. 17.17 1 Th. 5.23
He. 13.12; Titus 2.13; Titus 2.13,14; He. 2.11; Jn. 17.19; 1 Pe. 1.2



Daily Light - Evening
Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.... Wherein ye greatly rejoice though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Ps. 97.11; Ps. 126.5
1 Co. 15.37
1 Pe. 1.3,6-7

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 21 - How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A - Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 1
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The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by him the same night wherein he was betrayed, to be observed in his churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and showing to all the world the sacrifice of himself in his death,  (1)  confirmation of the faith of believers in all the beneifits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe to him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other.  (2)
(1)  1 Cor. 11.23-26  (2)  1 Cor. 10.16-17,21



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Amazing love
.... the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
​Galatians 2 v 20

When Jacob loved Rachel, he served seven years for her - he bore the summer's heat and winter's cold. But Jesus bore the hot wrath of God, and the winter blast of His Father's anger, for those He loved. Jonathan loved David with more than the love of women, and for his sake he bore the cruel anger of his father, Saul. But Jesus, out of love to us, bore the wrath of His Father poured out without mixture. It was the love of Christ that made Him leave the love of His Father, the adoration of angels, and the throne of glory. It was love that made Him not despise the Virgin's womb; it was love that made Him hungry and thirsty and weary; love nailed Him to the cross; love bowed His head beneath the amazing load of His Father's anger. 'Greater love hath no man than this.' 'I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.'