Daily Readings for Friday 4th April 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 law of the trespass offering, and of the peace offering, whether it be for a thanksgiving a vow, or a freewill offering. The fat and the blood are forbidden to be eaten. The priests' portion in the peace offerings. Recapitulation.
Leviticus 7
Psalms 7) Preface - David prayeth against the malice of his enemies, professing his innocence. By faith he seeth his defence, and the destruction of his enemies.
Psalms 8) Preface - God's glory is magnified by his works, and by his love to man.
Psalms 7-8


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Daily Light - Morning
Fear not; I am the first and the last.

Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest....but ye are come unto mount Sion....to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. - Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. - 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. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. - The mighty God, The everlasting Father. The Prince of Peace.

Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? - Who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
Rev. 1.17; He. 12.18,22-24; He. 12.2; He. 4.15-16
Isa. 44.6; Isa. 9.6
Hab. 1.12; 2 Sa. 22.32



Daily Light - Evening
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. - He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. - Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat.

Who is a rock save our God? - They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. - Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. - Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.
Ps. 61.2; Phil. 4.6-7
Ps. 142.3; Job 23.10; Ps. 90.1; Isa. 25.4
Ps. 18.31; Jn. 10.28; Ps. 119.116; He. 6.19



A Puritans Catechism
Q 63 - Which is the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 7
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As the providence of God does in general reach to all creatures, so after a more special manner it takes care of His church, and disposes of all things to the good thereof.  (23)
(23)-1 Tim. 4.10; Amos 9.8-9; Isa. 43.3-5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Pride of grace
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
2 Corinthians 12 v 7

Lest he should be exalted above measure. This is twice stated. What a singular thing is pride! Who would have thought that taking Paul into paradise for a day would have made him proud? And yet God, who new his heart, knew it would be so, and therefore brought him down to the dust.
The pride of nature is wonderful. A natural man is proud of anything. Proud of his person - although he did not make it, yet the prides himself upon his looks. Proud of his dress - although a block of wood might have the same cause of pride, if you would put the clothes on it. Proud of riches - as if there were some merit in having more gold than others. Proud of rank - as if there were some merit in having noble blood. Alas, pride flows in the veins. Yet, there is a pride more wonderful than that of nature - pride of grace. You would think a man never could be proud who had once seen himself lost. Yet, alas Scripture and experience show that a man may be proud of his measure of grace - proud of forgiveness, proud of humility, proud of knowing more of God than others. It was this that was springing up in Paul's heart when God sent him the thorn in the flesh.