Daily Readings for Friday 31st January 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.


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 - Jacob's vision at Mahanaim. His message to Esau. He is afraid of Esau's coming, and prayeth for deliverance. He sendeth a present to Esau; wrestleth with an angel at Peniel, and is called Israel. He halteth.
Genesis 32
Preface - Christ appealing to reason healeth the withered hand on the sabbath day. The Pharisees conspire his death: he retireth to the sea side, and healeth many: he chooseth his twelve apostles: his friends look upon him as beside himself: he refuteth conclusively the blasphemous absurdity of the Pharisees in ascribing his casting out of devils to the power of Beelzebub. Those who do the will of God he regardeth as his nearest relations.
Mark 3


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Daily Light - Morning
If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land
from before you....those which ye let remain of them
shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides,
and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Fight the good fight of faith. - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, buty mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) casting down imaginations....and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. - I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Nu. 33.55; 1 Tim. 6.12; 2 Co. 10.3-5
Ro. 8.12-13
Ga. 5.17; Ro. 7.23; Ro. 8.37



Daily Light - Evening
If a man sin against the LORD,
who shall intreat for him?

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. - Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?.... It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
1 Sa. 2.25; 1 Jn. 2.1-2; Ro. 3.25-26
Job 33.24
Ro. 8.31,33-34



A Puritans Catechism
Q 82 - What is meant by the words, "till he come," which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?
A - They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 3
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The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error; (4) and some have so degenerated as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan; (5) nevertheless Christ always has had, and ever shall have a kingdom in this world, to the end thereof, of such as believe in him, and make profession of his name. (6)
(4) 1 Cor. 5; Rev. 2-3 (5) Rev. 18.2; 2 Thess. 2:11012 (6) Matt. 16:18; Ps. 72:17, 102:28; Rev. 12:17



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The work of Christ
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Isaiah 42 v 21

This is in some respects the most wonderful description of the work of Christ given in the whole Bible. He is often said to have fulfilled the law. Thus, Matthew 3 v 15: 'Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.' And again, Matthew 5 v 17: 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.' But here it is said, He will 'magnify the law, and make it honourable; He came to give new lustre and glory to the holy law of God, that all worlds might see and understand that the law is holy, and just, and good. When God wrote the law upon the heart of Adam in His creation, that was magnifying the law. He showed it to be a great and holy and happy law, when he wrote it in the bosom of so holy and happy a creature as man then was. When God spoke the law from Mount Sinai, that magnified the law, and made it glorious. When He spoke it with His own voice in so dreadful a manner, when He wrote it twice with His own finger, this was magnifying it - enough, one would think, to make our modern Sabbath breakers tremble to erase it. But most of all when Christ died, did He give lustre, and greatness, and glory, and majesty, to the law of God in the sight of all worlds.