Daily Readings for Friday 22nd March 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)
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
Preface - The discipline and doctrine of wisdom. The sinful enticements of folly; their ruinous tendency.
Proverbs 9
Preface - Paul setteth before the Ephesians their former corrupt heathen state, and God's rich mercy in their deliverance. We are saved by grace, not of works, yet so as to be created in Christ unto good works. They who were once strangers, and far from God, are now brought near by Christ's blood, who having abolished the ritual law, the ground of distinction between Jew and Gentile, hath united both in one body, and gained them equal access to the Father. So that the Gentiles are henceforth equally privileged with the Jews, and together with them constitute an holy temple for the habitation of God's Spirit.
Ephesians 2


Daily Light - Morning
Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was well watered every where...
even as the garden of the LORD... Then Lot chose
him all the plain of Jordan...and pitched his tent
toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked
and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Just Lot...(that righteous man.)

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Remember Lot's wife.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. - Be not ye...partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light...proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ge. 13.10-13; 2 Pe. 2.7,8
Ga. 6.7; Lu. 17.32
2 Co. 6.14,17;
Eph. 5.7-8,10-11


Daily Light - Evening
If so be the LORD will be with me.
then I shall be able to drive them out,
as the LORD said.

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand...having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the brestplate of righteousness. - The LORD is with thee... Go in this thy might.
Jos. 14.12; He. 13.5-6; Ps. 71.16
Isa. 32.17
Eph. 6.12-14;
Judg. 6.12,14


A Puritans Catechism
Q 18 - What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?
A - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.


The Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 15
In cases of difficulties or differences, either in point of doctrine or administration, wherein either the churches in general are concerned, or any one church, in their peace, union, and edification; or any member or members of any church are injured, in or by any proceedings in censures not agreeable to truth and order: it is according to the mind of Christ, that many churches holding communion together, do, by their messengers, meet to consider, and give their advice in or about that matter in difference, to be reported to all the churches concerned;29 howbeit these messengers assembled, are not intrusted with any church-power properly so called; or with any jurisdiction over the churches themselves, to exercise any censures either over any churches or persons; or to impose their determination on the churches or officers.30
29 Acts 15:2,4,6,22–23,25
30 2 Cor. 1:24; 1 John 4:1


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
From the cross to the throne
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man
standing in the right hand of God. - Acts 7 v 56
When believing souls seek for peace and joy in believing, they do very generally confine their view to Christ upon the earth. They remember Him as the good Shepherd seeking the lost sheep, they look to Him sitting by the well of Samaria, they remember Him saying to the sick of the palsy: 'Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee.' But they too seldom think of looking where Stephen looked - to where Jesus is now; at the right hand of God.
Now, my friends, remember, if you would be whole Christians, you must look to a whole Christ. You must lift your eye from the cross to the throne, and you will find Him the same Saviour in all, 'the same yesterday, and today, and for ever'. I have already observed, that wherever Christ is mentioned as being at the right hand of God, He is spoken of as seated there upon His throne; here, and here only, are we told that he is standing. In other places He is described as enjoying His glory, and entered into His rest; but here He is described as risen from His throne, and standing at the right Hand of God.
He rises to intercede: 'He rises to intercede: 'He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.'
How often would a believer be a castaway, if it were not for the great Intercessor! How often faith fails! - 'flesh and heart faint and fail'; but see here, Christ never fails. On the death-bed, often the mind is taken off the Saviour, by pains of body and distress of mind; but, oh! happy soul that has truly accepted Christ. See here, He rises from His throne to pray for you, when you cannot pray for yourself. Look up to Him with the eye of faith, and cry: 'Lord Jesus,  receive my spirit.'