Daily Readings for Saturday 15th February 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 -Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father, who strengtheneth himself to bless them. He repeateth God's promise; taketh Ephraim and Manasseh as his own; and telleth Joseph of his mother's grave. He blesseth Joseph's two sons with their father, and preferreth the younger before the elder. He prophesieth their return to Canaan, in which he giveth Joseph a double portion.
Genesis 48
Preface - Luke's preface. An angel appeareth to Zacharias, and promiseth him a son in his old age: Zacharias doubting is struck dumb for a sign: his wife Elisabeth conceiveth. The angel's visit to Mary. Elisabeth saluted by Mary prophesieth. Mary's song of thanksgiving. The birth and circumcision of John the Baptist: Zacharias' mouth is opened: his prophecy.
Luke  1:39-80



Daily Light - Morning
Who can say, I have made my heart clean?

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - They that are in the flesh cannot please God.

To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. - We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. - God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pro. 20.9; Ps. 14.2-3; Ro. 8.8
Ro. 7.18-19; Isa. 64.6
Ga. 3.22; 2 Co. 5.19
1 Jn. 1.8-9



Daily Light - Evening
The floods lift up their waves.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. - O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it?

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.

Peter....walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Ps. 93.3; Ps. 93.4; Ps. 89.8-9
Jer. 5.22
Isa. 43.2
Mt. 14.29-31
​Ps. 56.3


​A Puritans Catechism
Q 15 - Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
A - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism and the Lords Supper
Chapter 28
PARAGRAPH 1
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Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of positive and sovereign institution, appointed by the Lord Jesus, the only lawgiver, to be ontinued in his church to the end of the world.  1
(1)   1 Matt. 28.19-20; 1 Cor. 11.26



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Do not doubt
Now Jesus loved....Lazarus.
John 11 v 5

Christ loved Lazarus peculiarly, and yet he afflicted him very sore. A surgeon never bends his eye so tenderly upon his patient, as when he is putting in the lancet, or probing the wound to the very bottom. And so with Christ; He bends His eye most tenderly over His own at the time He is afflicting them.
Do not doubt the holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hand upon you. Jesus did not love Lazarus less when he afflicted him, but rather more - even as a father correcteth a son in whom he delighteth (Proverbs 3 v 12). A goldsmith when he casts gold into the furnace looks after it.