Daily Readings for Friday 8 May 2026

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                              (Numbers 6.24-26)
- Pray for the ministry among the children in the Sunday School and Friday Bible Club 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 - Second Year
Preface - Isaiah's vision of the Lord in his glory: he is terrified; an angel removeth the ground of his apprehensions: he offereth himself, and is sent to shew the obstinacy of the people unto their destruction. A remnant shall be saved.
Isaiah 6
Preface - Exhortations to charity, hospitality, pity for the afflicted, chastity, contentment; to regard the preachers of God's word; to avoid strange doctrines: to confess Christ; to offer up our praises to God by him; to do good and to communicate; to obey spiritual rulers; and to pray for the apostle. The epistle endeth with a prayer and salutations.
Hebrews 13



Daily Light - Morning
It pleased the LORD to bruise him;
he hath put him to grief.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. - Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. - For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. - The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. - My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Min elect, in whom my soul delighteth.
Isa. 53.10; Jn. 12.27-28; Lu. 22.42-43
Phil. 2.8; Jn. 10.17; Jn. 6.38; Jn. 18.11
Jn. 8.29; Mt. 3.17; Isa. 42.1


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Daily Light - Evening
Ye that make mention of the LORD,
keep not silence.

Thou....hast made us unto our God kings and priests. - The sons of Aaron, the priests, ahall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. - Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. - The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. - Pray one for another.... The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Come, Lord Jesus. - Make no tarrying, O my God. - Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.
Isa. 62.6; Rev. 5.9,10; Nu. 10.8-9
Isa. 45.19; 2 Chr. 30.27; Ps. 34.15; Jas. 5.16
Rev. 22.20; Ps. 40.17; 2 Pe. 3.12

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A Puritans Catechism
Q  61 - Which is the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God and of the holy Trinity
Chapter 2
PARAGRAPH 3

​In this divine and infinite Being there are three subsistences, the Father, the Word or Son, and Holy Spirit,  (27)  of one substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet the essence undivided:  (28)  the Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father,  (29)  the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son;  (30)  all infinite, without beginning, therefore but one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being, but distinguished by several peculiar relative properties and personal relations; which doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of all our communion with God, and comfortable dependence on Him.
27)  1 John 5.7; Matt. 28.19; 2 Cor. 13.14
28)  Exod. 3.14; John 14.11; 1 Cor. 8.6
29)  John 1.14,18
30)  John 15.26; Gal. 4.6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Divine breathings
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost...
Jude v 20
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When a believer prays, he is not alone - there are three with him: the Father seeing in secret, His ear open; the Son blotting out sin, and offering up the prayer, the Holy Ghost quickening and giving desires. There can be no true prayer without these three. Some people pray like a parrot, repeating words when the heart is far from God. Some pray without the Father. They do not feel. They are speaking to the back of their chair, or to the world, or to the empty air. Some pray without the Son. They come in their own name - in their own righteousness. That is the sacrifice of fools. Some pray without the Holy Ghost. These are not filled with divine breathings. Dear friends, if you would live, you must pray; and if you would pray with acceptance, you must pray to the Father in the name of Jesus, and by His Spirit quickening.