Daily Readings for Saturday 12th April 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 - How the high priest must enter into the holy place. The sin offering for himself. The sin offering for the people. The scapegoat. The yearly feast of the expiations.
Leviticus 16
Preface - The works of God in the heavens proclaim their Maker's glory. The excellency of the divine law. David prayeth for God's grace and acceptance.
Psalms 19



Daily Light - Morning
What the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh.

The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? - By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Forasmuch....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. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren.
Ro. 8.3; He. 10.1-2; Ac. 13.39
​He. 2.14-17

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Daily Light - Evening
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

There is none righteous, no, not one....there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. - How can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.... Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

The LORD....hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. - Whom he justified them he also glorified. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.

Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Ro. 3.23; Ro. 3.10,12; Ec. 7.20; Job 25.4
He. 4.1
Ps. 51.3,5
2 Sa. 12.13; Ro. 8.30; 2 Co. 3.18; Col. 1.23
1 Th. 2.12
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
A - The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ's redemption, are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Covenant
Chapter 7
PARAGRAPH 3
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This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman,  (5)  and afterward by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament;  (6)  and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect;  (7)  and it is alone by the grace of this covenant that all the posterity of fallen Adam that ever were saved did obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms on which Adam stood in his state of innocency.  (8)
(1)-Gen 3.15  (6)  Heb. 1.1  (7)-2 Tim. 1.9; Titus 1.2  (8)-Heb. 11.6,13; Rom. 4.1-2; Acts 4.12; John 8.56

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Avoiding sin
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 25 v 1
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The truest mark of children of God is their avoiding sin. They flee from their old companions and old ways, they walk with God. And yet even this is imitated by the foolish virgins. They go out to meet their Lord. They flee old sins for a time, they hasten from their work to the house of God, they seek the company of God's children, perhaps they try to save others, and become very zealous in this. O how sad that many who now cling to the godly will soon be torn from them, and bound up with devils and wicked men!