Daily Readings for Saturday 11th November 2023

Prayer
-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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 10:50am (two minute silence) 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 Reading
Preface - Jehoiakim first submitteth to, and afterward rebelleth against Nebuchadnezzar; God hasteneth the ruin of Judah, as foretold by the prophets. Jehoiakim dieth: Jehoiachin succeedeth him. The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon. Jehoiachin's wicked reign. Jerusalem is besieged and taken; Jehoiachin with his family and the chief person's of Judah are carried captive to Babylon. Zedekiah is made king, and reigneth wickedly: he rebelleth to the utter destruction of Judah.
2 Kings 24
Preface - The higher doctrines of Christianity are proposed to be treated of. The guilt and danger of apostasy. Charitable deeds will not be forgotten of God. An exhortation diligently to imitate the faith and patience of those who inherit the promises. The promise of God to Abraham is sure gound of hope.
Hebrews 6

Daily Light - Morning
He led them on safely.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. - In all their affliction he was afflicted,, andthe angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

They got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. - So dist thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. - O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Ps. 78.53; Pro. 8.20
Ex. 23.20; Isa. 63.9
Ps. 44.3; Isa. 63.14
Ps. 5.8; Ps. 43.3-4

Daily Light - Evening
Ye are washed...ye are sanctified...ye are justified.

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - The chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Christ...loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. - To her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints, - Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Who shall lay any thing to charge of God's elect? it is God that justifieth. - Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
1 Co. 6.11; 1 Jn. 17; Isa. 53.5
Eph. 5.25-27; Rev. 19.8; He. 10.22
Ro. 8.33; Ps. 32.1-2

A Puritans Catechism
Q52 - Which is the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 2 - Paragraph 1
The Lord our God is but one only living and true God;  1) whose subsistence is in and of Himself, 2) infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but Himself; 3) a most pure spirit, 4) invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; 5) who is immutable, 6) immense, 7)  eternal, 8)  incomprehensible, almighty, 9) every way infinite, most holy, 10)  most wise, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and most righteous will, 11)  for His own glory; 12)   most loving, gracious, gracious, merciful, long-suffering abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, 13)  and withal most just and terrible in His judgments, 14)  hating all sin, 15)  and who will by no means clear the guilty. 16)
1) 1 Cor. 8.4,6; Deut. 6.4  2) Jer. 10:10; Isa. 48.12  3)  Exod. 3:14  4)  John 4:24  5)  1 Tim. 1:17; Deut. 4:15-16  6)  Mal. 3:6  7)  1 Kings 8:27; Jer. 23:23  8)  Ps. 90.2  9)  Gen. 17:1  10)  Isa. 6:3  11)  Ps. 115.3. Isa. 46:10  12)  Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36  13)  Exod. 34:6-7; Heb. 11:6  14)  Neh. 9.32-33  15)  Ps. 5:5-6  16)  Exod. 34:7; Nahum 1:2-3
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Comfort for Christians
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as gold. - Job 23 v 10
This is precious comfort. There will be an end of your affliction. Christians must have 'great tribulation,' but they come out of it. We must carry the cross, but only for a moment, then comes the crown. I remember one child of God's saying, that if it were God's will that she should remain in trials a thousand years, she could not but delight in His will. But this is not asked of us: we ae only called 'to suffer a while.' There is a set time for putting into the furnace, and a set time for taking out of the furnace. There is a time for pruning the branches of the vine, and there is a time when the husbandman lays aside the pruning hook. Let us wait His time - 'he that believeth shall not make haste.' God's time is the best time. But shall we come out the same as we went in? Ah! no, 'we shall come out like gold.' It is this that sweetens the bitterest cup, this brings a rainbow of promise over the darkest cloud. Affliction will certainly purify a believer. How boldly he says it, 'I shall come out like gold.' Ah, how much dross there is in every one of you, dear believers, and in your pastor! 'When I would do good evil is present with me.' Oh, that all the dross may be left behind in the furnace! What imperfection, what sin, mingles with all we have ever done! But are we really fruit-bearing branches of the true vine? Then it is certain that when we are pruned we shall bear more fruit. We shall come out like gold. We shall shine more purely as 'a diadem in the hand of our God.' We shall become purer vessels to hold the sweet smelling incense of praise and prayer. We shall become holy golden vessels for the Master's use in time and in eternity.