Daily Readings for Friday 9th May 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
Numbers 17) Preface - God commandeth the rods of the tribes to be brought before the testimony. They are laid up, and Aaron' rod only flourisheth. It is left for a monument against the rebels.
Numbers 18) Preface - The charge of the priests and Levites, The portion of the priests. The portion of the levites. The heave offering to the priests out of the portion of the Levites.
Numbers 17-18
Preface - The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. The duty of the church, and the benefits thereof.
Psalms 55



Daily Light - Morning
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. - After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

We walk by faith, not by sight. - Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
He. 11.1; 1 Co. 15.19
1 Co. 2.9-10; Eph. 1.13-14
Jn. 20.29; 1 Pe. 1.8-9
2 Co. 5.7; He. 10.35



Daily Light - Evening
It is I; be not afraid.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen: and have the keys of hell and of death. - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Woe is me! for I am undone....mine eyes have seen the king, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. - I have botted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Jn. 6.20; Rev. 1.17-18; Isa. 43.25
Isa. 6.5-7; Isa. 44.22
​1 Jn. 2.1
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Saving Faith
Chapter 14
PARAGRAPH 2
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By this faith a Christian believes to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself,  (4)  and also apprehends an excellency therein above all other writings and all things in the world,  (5)  as it bears forth the gory of God in his attributes, the excellency of Christ in his nature and offices, and the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in his workings and operations: and so is enabled to cast his soul upon the truth consequently believed;  (6)  and also acts differently upon that which each particular passage thereof contains; yielding obedience to the commands,  (7)  trembling at the threatenings,  (8)  and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come;  (9)  but the principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, and resting upon him alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.  (10)
(4)-Acts 24.14  (5)-Ps. 19.7-10, 69.72  (6)-2 Tim. 1.12  (7)-John 15.14  (8)-Isa. 116.2  (9)-Heb. 11.13
(10)-John 1.12; Acts 16.31; Gal. 2.20; Acts. 15.11

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Live near to Christ
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment.
Hebrews 1 v 11

Rutherford says: 'Build your nest upon no tree here; for you see God hath sold the forest to Death, and every tree whereon we would rest is ready to be cut down, to the end we may flee and mount up, and build upon the Rock, and dwell in the holes of the Rock.'
Set not your heart on the flowers of this world; for they have all a canker in them. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley more than all; for He changeth not. Live nearer to Christ than to the saints, so that when they are taken from you, you may have Him to lean on still.