Daily Readings for Friday 23rd February 2024

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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 - Job longeth to appear before God, in confidence of being heard with mercy and acquitted. God, though invisible, observeth our ways. Job asserteth his own integrity; but the immutable counsel of God troubleth him.
Job 23
Preface - The Jews who came out of Egypt had all sacraments typical of ours, yet many of them perished through sin. Their examples should serve, as they were intended, for our admonition. God will not suffer his servants to be tempted beyond their strength. Christians must flee idolatry, and not by partaking of idol sacrifices own fellowship with devils. Even in the us of thing lawful we should consult the good of others, and refer all we do to God's glory; careful to give none offence, after the apostle's own example.
1 Corinthians 10


Daily Light - Morning
The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh 
better things than that of Abel.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. - The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. - It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me... By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Abel...brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof...the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering. - Christ...hat loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - Having...boldness to enter in the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
He. 12.24; Jn. 1.29; Rev. 13.8; He. 10.4-5,10
Ge. 4.4; Eph. 5.2
He. 10.22; He. 10.19


Daily Light - Evening
Who knoweth the power of thine anger?

From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? - The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. - Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.

God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Ps. 90.11; Mt. 27.45-46; Isa. 53.6
Ro. 8.1; Ro. 5.1; Ga. 3.13
1 Jn. 4.9-10; Ro. 3.26


A Puritans Catechism
Q73 - How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
A - That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith adn love, lay it up into our hearts, and practice it in our lives.


Of Religious Worship  and The Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 8

The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe a holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations,30 but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.31
30 Isa. 58:13; Neh. 13:15–22
31 Matt. 12:1–13

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Before and after
What's know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. -
​1 Corinthians 6 v 19
A saved soul give himself away to Christ for ever. Before conversion a man loves to be his own master, to do what he will with him time, his money, his influence, his all. But when Jesus lays His hand on him, washes and renews him, then he says, 'I am the Lord's. I am not my own, but bought with a price.