Daily Readings for Friday 3rd 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 - The serpent deceiveth Eve. Man's fall. God calleth them to account. The serpent is cursed, and his overthrow by the seed of the woman foretold. The punishment of mankind. Their first clothing. Their expulsion out of paradise.
Genesis 3
Preface - The preaching of John the Baptist: his office, and manner of living: he baptizeth in Jordan, and rebuketh the Pharisees. Christ is baptized, and receiveth a witness from heaven.
Matthew 3


Daily Light - Morning
We which have believed do enter into rest.

They...weary themselves to commit iniquity. - 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. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and i will give you rest. - Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

He that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works. - Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. - This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.
He. 4.3; Jer. 9.5; Ro. 7.23-24
Mt. 11.28; Ro. 5.1-2
He. 4.10; Phil. 3.9; Isa. 28.12


Daily Light - Evening
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? - They provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

A whisperer separateth chief friends. - There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health, The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. - The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison... Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Put off...anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. - This is the will of God, even your sanctification. - In their mouth was found no guile.
Ps. 141.3; Ps. 130.3; Ps. 106.33
Mt. 15.11
Pro. 16.28; Pro. 12.18-19; Jas. 3.8,10
Col. 3.8-9; 1 Th. 4.3; Rev. 14.5


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 54 - What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
A - The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity - as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good - to all such as keep this commandment.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 2
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Religious worship is to be given to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and to him alone; (4) not to angels, saints, or any other creatures; (5) and since the fall, not without a mediator, (6) in the mediation of any other but Christ alone. (7)
(4) Matt. 4.9-10; John 6:23; Matt.28.19 (5) Rom. 1:25; Col. 2:18; Rev. 19:10 (6) John 14:6  (7) 1 Tim. 2:5


​Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Where lies the blame
....brethren, pray for us .....
2 Thessalonians 3 v 1

Prayer is more powerful than preaching. It is prayer that gives preaching all its power. I observe that some Christians are very ready to censure ministers, and to complain of their preaching, of their coldness, their unfaithfulness. God forbid that I should ever defend unfaithful preaching or coldness, or deadness, in the ambassador of Christ! May my right hand sooner forget its cunning! But I do say, Where lies the blame of unfaithfulness? Where, but in the want of faithful praying? Why, the very hands of Moses would have fallen down, had they not been held up by his faithful people. Come then ye wrestlers of God, ye that climb Jacob's ladder, ye that wrestle Jacob's wrestling - strive you with God, that He may fulfil His word.