Daily Readings for Friday 21st March 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 - The people in the absence of Moses cause Aaron to make a calf. God is angered thereby. At the entreaty of Moses he is appeased. Moses cometh down with the tables: he breaketh them: he destroyeth the calf. Aaron's excuse for himself. Moses causeth the idolaters to be slain. He prayeth for the people. God's answer.
Exodus 32
Preface - The sickness and death of Lazarus: Jesus raiseth him to life after he had been dead four days; many Jews believe. The Pharisees hold a council against Christ: Caiaphas prophesieth: Jesus retireth from places of public resort. At the approach of the passover the Jews enquire about him: the rulers give orders to apprehend him.
John 11


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Daily Light - Morning
Be watchful, and strengthen the things
which remain, that are ready to die.

The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. - Be sober, be viligant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. - Tak eheed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have sen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life. - The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Fear thou not: for I am with thee: be not dismayed; For I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.... I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand.
Rev. 3.2; 1 Pe. 4.7; 1 Pe. 5.8; Deu. 4.9; He. 10.38-39
Mk. 13.37
Isa. 41.10,13



Daily Light - Evening
Is his mercy clean gone for ever?

His mercy endureth for ever. - The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity....? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. - Not by works of righteousness with we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

A merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Ps. 77.8; Ps. 136.23; Nu. 14.18; Mi. 7.18-19; Titus 3.5
2 Co. 1.3,4
He. 2.17-18

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 49 - Which is the fourth commandment?
A - The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord Blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Gods Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 3
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By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ,  (7)  to the praise of His glorious grace;  (8)  others being left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of His glorious justice.  (9)
(7)-1 Tim. 5.21; Matt. 25.34  (8)-Eph. 1.5-6  (9)-Rom. 9.22-23; Jude 4



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Comforter abides forever
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13 v 5

You may take these words as those of the Spirit, and then they are like those words in fourteenth of John - 'I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever' - to abide with you for ever. It is the same as these words - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' When God the Holy Spirit comes to a soul, He will never leave it. Some may often be made to say @I think the Spirit will go away from me. But observe, He says, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' David cried out in the bitterness of his soul. 'Take not thy Holy Spirit away from me.' Here is the answer - 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.' God will never forsake the temple in which He dwells. He forsook the tabernacle in the wilderness, and He forsook the temple at Jerusalem; but He will never forsake the living temple.