Daily Readings for Friday 9th January 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.                               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 - Second Year
Preface - Ezra mourneth for the intermarriages of the people with strangers. He prayeth unto God with confession of sins.
Ezra 9
Preface - Saul going toward Damascus is encompassed with a light from heaven, falleth to the earth, is called by Christ, and led blind to Damascus. Ananias is sent to him, by whom he is restored to sight, and baptized: he straightway preacheth Christ boldly. The Jews of Damascus seek to kill him; he goeth to Jerusalem, and is brought to the apostles by Barnabas; preaching boldly against the Grecians, he is again in danger of his life, and is sent to Tarsus. The church hath rest, and is multiplied. Peter cureth Aeneas of the palsy at Lydda; and raiseth Tabitha to life at Joppa.
Acts 9

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Daily Light - Morning
Thou has given a banner to them that fear thee,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.
 
Jehovah-missi [marg. The LORD is my banner]. - When the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. - The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. - We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - The captain of their salvation.

My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - Valiant for the truth. - Fight the LORD's battles. - Be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work....fear ye not. - Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. - Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Ps. 60.4; Ex. 17.15; Isa. 59.19
Ps. 20.5; Jer. 51.10; Ro. 8.37; 1 Co. 15.57; He. 2.10
Eph. 6.10; Jer. 9.3; 1 Sa. 18.17; Hag. 2.4-5; Jn. 4.35; He. 10.37



Daily Light - Evening
One thing is needful.
 
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.

I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. - Lord, evermore give us this bread. - Mary....sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. - One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in th house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Lu. 10.42; Ps. 4.6-7
Ps. 42.1-2; Ps. 63.1
​Jn. 6.35; Jn. 6.34; Lu. 10.39; Ps. 27.4
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 1
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The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience,  (1)  although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation.  (2)  Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church;  (3)  and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed.  (4)

1 2 Tim. 3.15-17; Is. 8.20; Luke 16.29,31; Eph. 2.20
2 Rom. 1.19-21, 2.14-15; Psalm 19.1-3
3 Heb. 1.1
4 Prov. 22.19-21; Rom. 15.4; 2 Pet. 1.19-20



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4 v 14

Dear friends, has the Spirit glorified Christ to you? He is still the great revealer of Christ. He shines into our heart, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ. Has he led you to the altar, to the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world? Has he clothed you in the high priest's garments? Has he brought you within the veil, to the mercy-seat? This is His delightful work. Oh! it is a sweet work to be the minister on earth that leads souls to Christ - that points, like John, and says: 'Behold the Lamb of God!' But O how infinitely more loving is that Holy Spirit of God to lead trembling souls to Jesus! Oh praise him that has done this for you. Oh love the Spirit of God. 'Thy Spirit is good: lead me to the land of uprightness.'