Daily Readings for Friday 25th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The Ephrainites are offended with Gideon: he pacifieth them. The men of Succoth and Penuel insolently refuse relief to Gideon's army. Zebab and Zalmunna are taken prisoners. Succoth and Penuel are chastised. Gideon revengeth the death of his brethren on Zebab and Zalmunna. He refuseth the government which the people offer him, but asketh for the earrings of their prey, whereof he maketh an ephod: which becometh a cause of idolatry. Midian is totally subdued. Gideon's children. His death, and the subsequent idolatry and ingratitude of the Israelites.
Judges 8
Preface - King Herod persecuteth the Christians, killeth James, and imprisoneth Peter, who upon the prayers of the church is delivered by an angel. Herod, in his pride assuming the glory due to God, is smitten by an angel, and dieth miserably. After his death the word of God prospereth. Barnabas and Saul return to Antioch.
Acts 12



Daily Light - Morning
We know that we have passed
from death unto life.
 
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. - Hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.... Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. - We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. - Quickened....together with Christ. - Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.
1 Jn. 3.14; Jn. 5.24; 1 Jn. 5.12
2 Co. 1.21-22; 1 Jn. 3.19,21; 1 Jn. 5.19
Eph. 2.1; Eph. 2.5; Col. 1.13




Daily Light - Evening
Thou wilt shew me the path of life.

Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. - I will teach you the good and the right way. - I am the say, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Follow me.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. - Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
Ps. 16.11; Jer. 21.8; 1 Sa. 12.23; Jn. 14.6; Mt. 4.19
Pro. 14.12; Mt. 7.13-14
Isa. 35.8; Hos. 6.3
​Jn. 14.2


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 4 - What is God?
A - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 4
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An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.  (7)
(7)-Ps. 24.4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
'Abba, Father'
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4 v 6

No natural man cries, 'Abba'. It is not the cry of nature. Children cry 'Father' to their earthly parents. It is one of the first things they learn. They do not thus call upon God; but when one comes to Christ, and feels the Father's smile, the Father's arms, the Father's love, he crise 'Abba'.
Often it is little more than a cry. Many of God's children are not fluent in prayer. They have not many words.
Often they can only look up, and cry, 'Father'. A soul in Christ can cry, 'Father!' This runs through all he says to God, 'Abba'. 'In the multitude of words there wanteth of sin,' but this one word is the believer's prayer, 'Abba.'