Daily Readings for Friday 4th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.  



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - Jericho is shut up. God instructeth Joshua how to carry on the siege. Joshua directeth the priests with the ark followed by the people to compass the city. It is compassed six days; and on the seventh day it is compassed seven times. The city is accursed. At the people's shout the walls fall down, and the city is utterly destroyed. Rehab is saved. The man that buildeth Jericho again is laid under a curse.
Joshua 6:6
Psalms 135) Preface - An exhortation to God's servants to praise him for his goodness, his power, and judgments against his people's enemies. The vanity of idols. An exhortation to bless God.
Psalms 136) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his mercies particularly enumerated.
Psalms 135-136



Daily Light - Morning
Leaning on Jesus' bosom.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. - They brought young children to him, that he should touch them.... And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. - Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faith in the way. - An high priest....touched with the feeling of our infirmities. - In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

I will not leave your comfortless [marg. orphans]: I will come to you. - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

​The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Jn. 13.23; Isa. 66.13; Mk. 10.13,16; Mt. 15.32; He. 4.15; Isa. 63.9
Jn. 14.18; Isa. 49.15
Rev. 7.17




Daily Light - Evening
Jesus Christ the righteous....
the propitiation for our sins.

Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him.... Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.... Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. - All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins.
1 Jn. 2.1,2; Ex. 25.20-22
Ps. 85.9,10
​Ps. 130.3-4,7-8; Ro. 3.23-25


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 65 - Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
A - No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 4
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An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.  (7)
(7)-Ps. 24.4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Holy Scriptures
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5 v 39

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

Laden with guilt and full of fears,
I fly to Thee, my Lord,
And not a glimpse of hope appears,
But in the written word.

The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my griefs assuage;
Here I behold my Saviour's face
Almost in every page?

This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown:
The merchant is divinely wise
Who makes the pearl his own.

Here consecrated water flows,
To quench my thirst of sin;
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
Nor danger dwells therein.

This is the judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reason fail:
My guide to everlasting life,
Through all this gloomy vale.

O may thy counsels, mighty God,
My roving feet command;
Nor I forsake the happy road
That leads to thy right hand.

Robert Murray McCheyne