Daily Readings for Friday 8th September 2023

Prayer
-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.)

Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 readings
Preface - By God's direction David goeth up with his company to Hebron, where he is made king over Judah. He commendeth the men of Jabesh-gilead for their kindness to Saul. Abner maketh Ish-bosheth king over Israel. A deadly skirmish between twelve of Abner's men and twelve of Joab's bringeth on a battle, wherein the men of Israel are worsted. Asahel refusing to desist from pursuing Abner is slain by him. At Abner's motion Joab soundeth a retreat. The loss in the action. Asahel's burial.
2 Samuel 2
Preface - All gifts, however excellent, without charity are worth nothing. The praises of charity, and its preference to faith and hope.
1 Corinthians 13

A Puritans Catechism
Q71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
A - The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the  benefits of Christ's redemption, are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Our truest joy
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. - Ephesians 4 v 24.
It is the chief glory and joy of a soul to be like God. You remember this was the glory of that condition in which Adam was created. 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.' His understanding was without a cloud. He saw, in some measure, as God seeth; his will flowed in the same channel with God's will; his affections fastened on the same objects which God also loved. When man fell, we tened on the same objects which God also loved. When man fell, we lost all this, and became children of the devil, and not children of God. But when a lost soul is brought to Christ, and receives the Holy Ghost, he puts off the old man, and puts on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. It is our true joy in this world to be like God. Too many rest in the joy of being forgiven, but our truest joy is to be like Him. Oh, rest not, beloved, till you are renewed after His image, till you partake of the divine nature. Long for the day when Christ shall appear, and we shall be fully like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.