Daily Readings for Friday 21st June 2024

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.


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 Readings
Preface - The prophet complaining of want of faith describeth the humiliation of Christ; his sufferings, and the good success thereof.
Isaiah 53
Preface - The genealogy of Christ from Abraham to Joseph. The miraculous conception of Mary; Joseph's doubts are satisfied by an angel, who declareth the name and office of Christ: Jesus is born.
Matthew 1


Daily Light - Morning
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps.

Even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. - Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Jesus of Nazareth...went about doing good. - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The meekness and gentleness of Christ. - In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Father, forgive them: for they know not what thy do. - Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Pe. 2.21; Mk. 10.45; Mk. 10.44
Ac. 10.38; Ga. 6.2
2 Co. 10.1; Phil. 2.3
Lu. 23.34; Eph. 4.32
1 Jn. 2.6; He. 12.2 


Daily Light - Evening
I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, 
but he gave me no answer.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!...and the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath sinned...for they have even taken of the accursed thing...and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Song 5.6; Jos. 7.8,10-11
Isa. 59.1-2
Ps. 66.18
1 Jn. 3.21-22


A Puritans Catechism
Q 22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A - Christ as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Saving Faith
Chapter 14
PARAGRAPH 1

The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word; by which also, and by the administration of baptism and the Lord's supper, prayer, and other means appointed of God, it is increased and strengthened.

1. 2 Corinthians 4:13 
2. Ephesians 2:8 
3. Romans 10:14,17 
4. Luke 17:5 
5. 1 Peter 2:2 
6. Acts 20:32

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ within the veil
...and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna... - Hebrews 9 v 4
When God led Israel through the wilderness, 'He fed them with the corn of heaven; man did eat angels' food.' He rained down manna on them every morning for forty years. At that time God commanded them to preserve an omer of it (enough for one person) in a golden pot, 'that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness.' (Exodus 16 v 32). Paul here tells us it was kept in a golden pot, beside the ark within the veil. There can be no doubt that the manna was a type of Jesus - the nourishment of His people. The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. 'I am the bread of life' (John 6 v 33). But the hidden manna represented Christ within the veil; and accordingly, the promise to him that overcometh in the Church of Smyma runs thus: 'To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna' (Rev 2 v 17). Jesus i snot to be our food only in the wilderness, but in eternity; we shall still feed on that hidden manna - that bread of God.