Daily Readings for Friday 28th March 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 cloths of service, and holy garments. The ephod. The breastplate. The robe of the ephod. The coats, mitre, and girdle of fine linen. The plate of the holy crown. All is viewed and approved by Moses.
Exodus 39
Preface - Judas betrayeth Jesus: the officers and soldiers at Christ's word fall to the ground: Peter cutteth off Malchus' ear: Jesus is led bound to Amas and Caiaphas: Peter denieth him: Jesus is examined by the high priest, and struck by one of the officers: Peter denieth him the second and third time: Jesus brought before Pilate, and examined, confesseth his kingdom not to be of this world: Pilate testifying his innocence, and offering to release him, the Jews prefer Barabbas.
John 18


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Daily Light - Morning
Be strong and of a good courage

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. - My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? - Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
Jos 1.18; Ps. 27.1; Isa. 40.29-31; Ps. 73.26
Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6; Ps. 44.5; Ro. 8.37
1 Chr. 22.16



Daily Light - Evening
Our friend....sleepeth.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. FOr if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

If the dead rise not then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.... But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying.... Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones....and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. - This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. - Witnesses chosen before of God....who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Jn. 11.11; 1 Th. 4.13-14
1 Co. 15.16-18,20
​Jos. 4.1,3,7; Ac. 2.32; Ac. 10.41

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 56 - What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends to it.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Creation
Chapter 4
PARAGRAPH 3
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Besides the law written in their hearts, they received a command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,  (9)  which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God, and had dominion over the creatures  (10)
(9)-Gen. 2.17  (10)-Gen. 1.26, 28


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holy rapture
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31 v 3

Does it give you no joy to feel that God thought upon you in love before the foundation of the world? That when He was alone from all eternity He gave you to the Son to be redeemed? 'Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee. 'Does it give you no joy to think that the Son of God thought on you with love before the world was: 'My delights were with the children of men.' That He came into the world bearing your name upon His heart, that he prayed for you on the night of His agony: 'Neither pray I for these alone, but for all those that shall believe on me through their word.' Does it give you no joy that he thought upon you in His bloody sweat, that He thought of you upon the cross, and intended these sufferings to be in your stead? Oh, little children, how it would lift your hearts in holy rapture above the world, above its vexing cares, its pretty quarrels, its polluting pleasures, if you would keep this holy joy within, taking up the very word of your Lord: 'Father, thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world'!