Daily Readings for Friday 25th April 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 order of the tribes in their tents and in their marches. Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, on the east; the first division. Reuben, Simeon, Gad, on the south; the second division. The place of the tabernacle with the Levites in the midst. Ephraim, Mannasseh, Benjamin, on the west; the third division. On the north, Dan, Asher, Naphtali; these bring up the rear. Recapitulation.
Numbers 2
Preface - The falsehood and mischievous devices of the wicked: the excellency of the divine mercy, righteousness, truth, and lovinkindness. David prayeth God to continue his favour to the good, and to baffle the the designs of the wicked.
Psalms 36


Daily Light - Morning
Thou shalt call his name JESUS:
for he shall save his people from their sins.

Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. - That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness - He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.... The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Thus it behoved Christ to suffer....that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations. - He appeared ot put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour....to give repentance. - Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. - Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Mt. 1.21; 1 Jn. 3.5; 1 Pe. 2.24; He. 7.25
Isa. 53.5,6; Lu. 24.46,47; He. 9.26
Ac. 5.31; Ac. 13.38-39; 1 Jn. 2.12


Daily Light - Evening
Our Lord Jesus Christ....though he was rich,
yet for your sakes....became poor,
that ye through hi spoverty might be rich.

It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell. - The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but mad ehimself of no reputation.

The foxed have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's
2 Co. 8.9; Col. 1.19; He. 1.3,4; Phil. 2.6-7
Mt. 8.20
​1 Co. 3.21-23
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 2 - What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him?
A - The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 1
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Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call,  (1)  by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;  (2)  enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God;  (3)  taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them a heart of flesh;  (4)  renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;  (5)  yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.  (6)
(1)-Rom. 8.30, 11.7; Eph. 1.10-11; 2 Thess. 2.13-14  (2)-Eph. 2.1-6  (3)-Acts 26.18; Eph. 1.17-18  (4)-Ezek. 36.26  (5)-Deut. 30.6; Ezek. 36.27; Eph. 1.19  (6)-Ps. 110.3; Cant. 1.4


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The righteousness of God
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 1 v 17

There is something infinitely vast and glorious in the righteousness of God. When the deluge covered the earth, it covered the highest mountains. Looking down from above, not one mountain-top could be seen, but a vast world of water - a vast plain reflecting the beams of the sun. So if you this day lie down under the righteousness of God, the mountains of your sins will not be seen, but only the vast, deep, glorious righteousness of your God and Saviour. If you were to cast a stone into the deepest part of the ocean, it would be lost and swallowed up by the deep waves of ocean; so when a sinner is cast down under the righteousness of God, he is as it were lost and swallowed up in Christ.