Daily Readings for Friday 26th July 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 - An exhortation to the king's house to execute justice without oppression, enforced with promises and threats. The judgment of Shallum, of Jehoiakin, and of Coniah.
Jeremiah 22
Preface - Christ miraculously feedeth four thousand persons: he refuseth the Pharisees a sign: he warneth his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod, and explaineth his meaning: he giveth a blind man sight. The people's opinions, and Peter's confession, of him: he foresheweth his own death, and rebuketh Peter for dissuading him from it: he sheweth his followers that they must deny themselves, and not be ashamed of him and his gospel.
Mark 8


Daily Light - Morning
By faith Abraham...
called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed.

He shall choose our inheritance for us. - He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 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, and there was no strange god with him.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which was against the soul. - Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
He. 11.8; Ps. 47.4; Deu. 32.10-12
Isa. 48.17; Job 36.22
2 Co. 5.7; He. 13.14; 1 Pe. 2.11; Mi. 2.10


Daily Light - Evening
Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

The heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? - Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm.

Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness? - Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. - Partakers of his holiness.

The temple of God is holy, which temple ye ar. - What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...without spot, and blameless?

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying... And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ps. 97.12; Job 15.15-16; Job 25.5-6
Ex. 15.11; Isa. 6.3
1 Pe. 1.15,16; He. 12.10
1 Co. 3.17; 2 Pe. 3.11,14
Eph. 4.29,30


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 57 - Which is the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 3
​They who upon pretence of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction,16 so they wholly destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our lives.17

16 Rom. 6:1–2
17 Gal. 5:13; 2 Pet. 2:18,21


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Complete assurance
Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. -  Hebrews 3 v 1

Oh, brethren, could you and I pass this day though these heavens, and see what is now going on in the Sanctuary above, - could you see what the child of God now sees who died last night, - could you see the Lamb with the scars of His five deep wounds in the very midst of the throne, surrounded by all the odours, - could you see the many angels round about the throne, whose number is ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, all singing, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain,' - and were one of these angels to tell you, 'This is He that undertook the cause of lost sinners; He undertook to be the second Adam, - the man in their stead; and lo! there He is upon the throne of heaven; - consider Him, - look long and earnestly upon His wounds - upon His glory, - and tell me, do you think it would be safe to trust Him? Do you think His sufferings and obedience will have been enough? - Yes, yes, every soul exclaims, Lord, it is enough! Lord, stay thy hand! Show me no more, for I can bear no more. Oh, rather let me ever stand and gaze upon the almighty, all-worthy, all divine Saviour, till my soul drink in complete assurance that His work undertaken for sinners is a finished work! Yes, though the sins of all the world were on my one wicked head, still I could not doubt that His work is complete, and that I am quite safe when I believe in Him.