Daily Readings for Friday 30th May 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 story of the conquest of Og king of Bashan; the size of his  ed; the distribution of the conquered lands to the two tribes and half; the charge given to these by Moses, and his exhortation to Joshua; his prayer that he might enter into the land, which is not accepted; but he is permitted to see the land.
Deuteronomy 3
Preface - The Psalmist, having acknowledged God's returning favour to his people, humbly prayeth for the completion of it: he promiseth to wait God's answer in confidence of his manifold blessings.
Psalms 85



Daily Light - Morning
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction...strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. - The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you. - Give diligence to make your calling and election sure....for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. - So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. - The LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
He 4.11; Mt. 7.13,14; Mt. 11.12; Jn. 6.27; 2 Pe. 1.10,11; 1 Co. 9.24-25
He. 4.10; Isa. 60.19




Daily Light - Evening
Thou hearest me always.

Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. - Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, ssaying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. - Lo, I come....to do thy will, O God. - Not my will, but thine, be done.

As he is, so are we in this world. - This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

He ever liveth to make intercession for them. - We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Jn. 11.42; Jn. 11.41; Jn. 12.28; He. 10.7; Lu. 22.42
1 Jn. 4.17; 1 Jn. 5.14
1 Jn. 3.22
He. 11.6
​He. 7.25; 1 Jn. 2.1
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 37 - What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A - At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 7
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Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and to others;  (19)  yet because they proceed not from a heart purified by faith,  (20)  nor are done in a right manner according to the Word,  (21)  nor to a right end, the glory of God,  (22)  they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, nor make a man meet to receive the grace from God,  (23)  and yet their neglect for them is more sinful and displeasing to God.  (24)
(19)-2 Kings 10.30; 1 Kings 21.27,29  (20)-Gen. 4.5; Heb. 11.4,6  (21)-1 Cor. 13.1  (22)-Matt. 6.2,5  (23)-Amos 5.21-22; Rom. 9.16; Titus 3.5 
(24)-Job 21.14-15; Matt. 25.41-43

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Touched
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are; yet without sin.
Hebrews 4 v 15

We have a merciful and faithful High Priest. He suffered being tempted, just that He might succour them that are tempted. The high priest of old not only offered sacrifice at the altar, - his work was not done when the lamb was consumed. He was to be a father to Israel. He carried all their names graven over his heart, - he went in and prayed for them within the veil. He came out and blessed the people, saying, 'The Lord bless thee and keep thee: The Lord make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.'
So it is with the Lord Jesus. His work was not all done on Calvary. He that died for our sins lives to pray for us, - to help in every time of need. He is still man on the right hand of God. He is still God, and therefore, by reason of His divinity, is present here this day as much as any of us. He knows your every sorrow, trial, difficulty; every half-hearted sigh He hears, and brings in notice thereof to His human heart at the right hand of God. His human heart is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; it pleads for you, thinks on you, plans deliverance for you.
Dear tempted brethren! go boldly to the throne of grace, to obtain mercy and find grace to help you in your time of need.