Daily Readings for Friday 27th December 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 - The destruction of Jerusalem. The coming of Christ, the graces of his kingdom, and the restoration of Jerusalem. The plague of Jerusalem's enemies. The remnant shall turn to the Lord. The holiness of all that belongeth to them.
Zachariah 14
Preface - Christ prayeth to his Father to glorify him; and to preserve his apostles in unity of faith, and from all evil; and to sanctify them with the word of truth: and for the perfect union of all believers, and their admission to a share of his glory in heaven.
John 17
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Daily Light - Morning
We look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Here have we no continuing city. - Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

​Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened. - God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. - Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 Co. 4.18; He. 13.14; He. 10.34
Lu. 12.32
1 Pe. 1.6; Job 3.17
2 Co. 5.4; Rev. 21.4
Ro. 8.18; 2 Co. 4.17



Daily Light - Evening
Daily Light - Evening
He is our peace.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them... For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself... And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. - Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Eph. 2.14; 2 Co. 4.19,21; Col. 1.20,21-22; Col. 2.14; Eph. 2.15
Jn. 14.27


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 47 - Which is the third commandment?
A - The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Gospel and the Extent of Grace Thereof
Chapter 20
PARAGRAPH 2
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This promise of Christ, and salvation by him, is revealed only by the Word of God;3 neither do the works of creation or providence, with the light of nature, make discovery of Christ, or of grace by him, so much as in a general or obscure way;4 much less that men destitute of the revelation of Him by the promise or gospel, should be enabled thereby to attain saving faith or repentance.5
3 Rom. 1;17
4 Rom. 10:14–15,17
5 Prov. 29:18; Isa. 25:7; 60:2–3


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holiness and your Bible
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17 v 17

Jesus is the author of sanctification; but there are many looking to the wrong airt for it. Now, all comes from the same hand that was nailed to the cross; look to Him for sanctification - His name is Jesus, for He saves from sin. Oh, do any feel faint and weary? Lean on Him, the Beloved: all comes from Jesus. You may as well try to hold up the sun in its course, as to hold up your own goings. Go, then, to Jesus for all you need: learn the means of sanctification - the Word. No holiness without the Bible. I believe God could sanctify without the Word. He made the angels holy without it, and He made Adam holy without it; but He will not do it. 'Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.' Just like a mother nourishing a child, Jesus takes a soul and nourishes it with the milk of the word. No life without a Bible. It is just the breathings of God's heart - of His affectionate bosom. Oh, yes, if you would walk much with Jesus, you would become like Him. Oh, you would get the heart and likeness of Jesus. There are some believers, and you may know them by their breath that they have been with Emmanuel, the lovely Rose of Sharon. Learn then, that there are no other means of sanctification, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. - Unless you love your Bibles, and feed upon them, you will never stand with the Lamb upon Mount Zion, with the golden harps.