Daily Readings for Monday 12th May 2025

Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ.          (John  3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
​- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and         online contacts.



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 - Israel with some loss destroy the Canaanites at Hormah. The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents. Repenting they are healed by a brasen serpent. Sundry journeys of the Israelites, with their song on finding water. Sihon is overcome, and Og.
Numbers 21
60) Preface - David complaining to God of former judgments, now upon better hope prayeth for deliverance: comforting himself in God's promises, he craveth that help whereon he trusteth.
61) Preface - David encouraged by former experience fleeth to God in prayer: he voweth perpetual service unto him because of past and in prospect of future, mercies.
Psalms 60-61



Daily Light - Morning
Beloved, let us love one another:
for love is of God; and every one that loveth
is born of God, and knoweth God.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. - That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 Jn. 4.7; Ro. 5.5; Ro. 8.15-16; 1 Jn. 5.10
1 Jn. 4.9; Eph. 1.7; Eph. 2.7
1 Jn. 4.11



Daily Light - Evening
Reproach hath broken my heart.

Is not this the carpenter's son? - Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? - Say we not well that thou are a Samaritan, and hast a devil? - He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils, - We know that this man is a sinner. - He deceiveth the people. - This man blasphemeth. - Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. - This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.... For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: :who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye.
Ps. 69.20; Mt. 13.55; Jn. 1.46; Jn. 8.48; Mt. 9.34; Jn. 9.24; Jn. 7.12; Mt. 9.3; Mt. 11.19
Mt. 9.34; Jn. 9.24; Jn. 7.12; Mt. 9.3; Mt. 11.19
Mt. 10.25; 1 Pe. 2.19,21-23; 1 Pe. 4.14

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 19 - Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
A - God, having out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 2
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Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin,  (2)  and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalence of temptation fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be rewed through repentance unto salvation.  (3)
(2)-Eccles. 7.20  (3)-Luke 22.31-32
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The true value of an action
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
1 Samuel 2 v 3
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In order to know the true value of an action, you must search the heart. Many a deed that is applauded by men, is abominable in the sight of God, who searches the heart. To give an alms to a poor man may be an action either worthy of an eternal reward, or worthy of an eternal punishment. If it be done out of love to Christ, because the poor man is a disciple of Christ, it will in no wise lose its reward. Christ will say: 'Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.' If it be done out of pride or self-righteousness, Christ will cast it from Him; He will say, 'Depart, ye cursed; ye did it not unto me.'