Daily Readings for Friday 6th June 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 - Moses proceedeth to relate the mercy of God in restoring the two tables, continuing the priesthood, separating the tribe of Levi, and hearkening unto his suit for the people. He exhorteth to obedience.
Deuteronomy 10
Preface - The Psalmist calling for justice complaineth of the tyranny and impiety of the wicked: he sheweth God's providence; and teacheth the blessedness of affliction. God is the defender and avenger of the afflicted.
Psalms 94



Daily Light - Morning
He will rest in his love.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you because ye were more in number that any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the LORD loved you. - We love him, because he first loved us. - You....hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. - His Son....who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Zeph. 3.17; Deu. 7.7-8; 1 Jn. 4.19; Col. 1.21-22
1 Jn. 4.10; Ro. 5.8
Mt. 3.17; Jn. 10.17; He. 1.2,3




Daily Light - Evening
A new and living way.

Cain went out from the presence of the LORD. - Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. - Follow....holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ....hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing. - He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. - The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. - Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
He. 10.20; Ge. 4.16; Isa. 59.2; He. 12.14
Jn. 14.6; 2 Tim. 1.10
He. 9.8; Eph. 2.14; Mt. 27.51
​Mt. 7.14; Ps. 16.11
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 44 - Which is the second commandment?
A - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 6
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Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned,  (13)  yet it is of great use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against, sin;  (14)  together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of his obedience; it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatenings, of it serve to show what even their sims deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and unallayed rigour thereof. The promises of it likewise show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.  (15)
(13)-Rom. 6.14; Gal. 2.16; Rom. 8.1, 104  (14)-Rom. 3.20, 7.7; etc.  (15)-Rom. 6.12-14; 1 Pet. 3.8-13

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Nothing to spare
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Matthew 25 v 9

It pleases God to use the godly as instruments, but he has not given them to be fountains of grace: 'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase' (1 Corinthians 3.6). Rachel said to Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead? (Genesis 30.1,2). So grace is not in the hand of man. Those who receive Christ 'are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God' (John 1.13). It is in vain, then, that you look to the means to give saving grace to your soul. The axe can hew without the hand of the forester. The pitcher that carries water is not the well. It will be in vain that you apply to God's children in that awful day. Go to Jesus now. The righteous scarcely are saved. Every child of God gets just so much grace as will carry him to heaven, and no more. Even now ever child of God feels that he has nothing to spare. He has not too much of the Holy Spirit, helping him to pray, to mourn over sin, to love Christ. In time of temptation a believer feels as if he had nothing of the Holy Spirit. He has more need to receive, than ability to give away.
When Christ shall come in that solemn hour, he will feel that he has none to spare.