Daily Readings for Friday 22nd November4 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 Reading
Preface - Jonah sent by God to Nineveh, fleeth to Tarshish: he is overtaken by a storm, and discovered; thrown into the sea, and swallowed by a fish.
Jonah 1
Preface - Christ alleged scripture in defence of his disciples' plucking the ears of corn on the sabbath day: he appealeth to reason, and healeth the withered hand on the sabbath. He spendeth the night in prayer, and chooseth the twelve apostles: he healeth various diseased people: pronounceth blessings and woes: teacheth to return good for evil, and other lessons of moral duty: and admonisheth to be his disciples in practice, and not in profession only.
Luke 6


Daily Light - Morning
Praying in the Holy Ghost.

God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. - We...have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

The Spirit...helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:  but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. - When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication.
Jude 20; Jn. 4.24; Eph. 2.18
Mt. 26.39
Ro. 8.26-27; 1 Jn. 5.14; Jn. 16.13
Eph. 6.18


Daily Light - Evening
There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down,
that it will sprout again, and that
the tender branch thereof will not cease.

A bruised reed shall he not break. - He restoreth my soul.

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. - No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word...It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. - After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy commandments...?

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me...he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Job 14.7; Isa. 42.3; Ps. 23.3
2 Co. 7.10; He. 12.11
Ps. 119.67.71; Ezr. 9.13-14
​Mi. 7.8-9


A Puritans Catechism
Q 12 - What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the state wherein he was created?
A - When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the ree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 3
​Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those who are justified; and did, by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his cross, undergoing in their stead the penalty due to them, make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice in their behalf;8 yet, in as much as he was given by the Father for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for anything in them,9 their justification is only of free grace, that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.10
8 Heb. 10:14; 1 Pet. 1:18–19; Isa. 53:5–6
9 Rom. 8:32; 2 Cor. 5:21
10 Rom. 3:26; Eph. 1:6–7, 2:7

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path  - Daily Devotional Readings
The perfection of God poured forth
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father)
Full of grace and truth.
John 1 v 14

Christ did not get more glory by becoming man; but He manifested his glory in a new way. He did not gain one perfection more by becoming man; He had all the perfections of God before. But now these perfections were poured through a human heart. The Almightiness of God now moved in a human arm. The infinite love of God now beat in a human heart. The compassion of God to sinners now glistened in a human eye. God was love before, but Christ was love covered over with flesh. Just as you have seen the sun shining through a coloured window. It is the same sunlight still, and yet it shines with a mellowed lustre. So in Christ dwelt all the fullness of the God-head bodily. The perfection of the Godhead shone through every pore through every action, word and look - the same perfections; - they were only shining with a mellowed brightness. The vail of the temple was a type of His flesh; because it covered the bright light of the holiest of all. But just as the bright light of the shecinah often shone through the vail, so did the God head of Christ force itself through the heart of the man Christ Jesus.