Daily Readings for Saturday 11th January 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 - God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. He with Lot departeth from Haran. He journeyeth through Canaan, which is promised him in a vision. He is driven by a famine into Egypt, where fear maketh him feign his wife to be his sister. Pharaoh taketh her into his house, but by plagues is compelled to restore her; and sendeth Abram away.
Genesis 12
Preface - Christ sendeth out his twelve apostles with power to do miracles. He instructeth them; and forewarning them of persecutions, suggesteth motives of comfort and constancy; he promiseth a blessing to those who should receive them.
Matthew 10


Daily Light - Morning
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion.

To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. - All men should honour the Son, even as they honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb... Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.


Daily Light - Evening
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. - I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.

As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. - When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.
Ps. 103.4; Jer. 50.34; Hos. 13.14
He. 2.14-15
Jn. 3.36
Col. 3.3-4; 2 Th. 1.10


A Puritans Catechism
Q 62 - What is required in the ninth commandment?
A - The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-bearing.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 2
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The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear; and therein it is to be used, with all holy fear and reverence; therefore to swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and dreadful name, or to swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred;(3) yet as in matter of weight and moment, for confirmation of truth, and ending all strife, an oath is warranted by the word of God; (4) so a lawful oath being imposed by lawful authority in such matters, ought to be taken (5)  
(3) Matt. 5:34,37, James 5:12  (4) Heb. 6:16; 2 Cor. 1.23 (5) Neh. 13:25


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The victory of the blood
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb...
Revelation 12 v 11

We wrestle not with flesh and blood. An awakened soul often has an awful warfare with Satan. Satan fights against him in two ways: first, by stirring up his corruption's, and making his lusts to flame and burn within him in a fearful manner. Second, by accusing him. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He accuses him in his conscience, in order to drive him away from Christ - to drive him to despair, and to give up all hope of salvation. He says to him: 'Thou art a vile wretch, not fit for a holy Saviour. See what raging lusts are in thy heart. Thou wilt never be saved.' Ah, when the poor sinner runs into Chirst, he finds rest there - his warfare is then accomplished. He sees all the accusations of Satan answered in the blood of the Lamb.