Daily Readings for Friday 23rd August 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 - Zedekiah's wicked reign, and rebellion against the king of Babylon. Jerusalem besieged and taken. Zedekiah is made prisoner, and his sons and nobles being first slain, and his own eye put out, is carried in chains to Babylon. Nebuzar-adam having burned the temple, and laid the city in ruins, carrieth all the people, except a few labourers, to Babylon: he spoileth and carrieth away the valuable things of the temple. The nobles of Judah are slain at Riblah. The number of the Jews who at different times were carried captives to Babylon. Evil-merodach sheweth kindness to Jehoiachin in his captivity.
Jeremiah 52
Preface - David shewing his confidence in God desireth his help: he rejoiceth in God's mercy: he prayeth in his calamity: he extolleth God's goodness toward them that fear him: he blesseth him for the kindness which he himself had experienced: he exciteth the faithful to love and trust in him.
Psalms 31


Daily Light - Morning
I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. - God...hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Jer. 31.3; 2 Th. 2.13-14; 2 Tim. 1.8,9; Ps. 139.16
Jn. 3.16
1 Jn. 4.10


Daily Light - Evening
I have made, and I will bear.

Thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Irael, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. - even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. - He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. - For I am persuaded, that neither...height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Isa. 46.4; Isa. 43.1-2; Isa. 46.4
Deu. 32.11-12; Isa. 63.9
He. 13.8; Ro. 8.38,39
Isa. 49.15



A Puritans Catechism
Q 3 - What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A - The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 8
​A particular church, gathered and completely organized according to the mind of Christ, consists of officers and members; and the officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the church (so called and gathered), for the peculiar administration of ordinances, and execution of power or duty, which he intrusts them with, or calls them to, to be continued to the end of the world, are bishops or elders, and deacons.15
15 Acts 20:17,28; Phil. 1:1


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Transformed
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 7 vs 7-8

All the beasts entered in. There came a lion and a lioness - they, too, enter in. And then there came in the tall cattle; there came a camel-lopard, with its long majestic neck bent down - it, too, entered in. And then came the birds; the eagle that loves to soar aloft in the sky, and feed upon its prey - it, too, entered in. And then the creeping things; there cam a serpent, and perhaps, Noah might say when he saw them creepin galong the ground, 'These will bite us' - but they, too, entered in. So, brethren, it is true that all kinds of sinners may enter in. And it is sweet to see what a change came over them when they entered in. The lion lay down beside the lamb, and the leopard beside the kid. So it is with those that came to Christ. The lion-like nature is changed into the gentle nature of the lamb - the proud man is made humble. 'If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.'