Daily Readings for Saturday 16th December 2023

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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 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 - Jehoshaphat joined in affinity with Ahab is persuaded to go with him against Ramoth-gilead. Jehoshaphat proposeth to enquire of God; Ahab's false prophets assure him of success. At Jehoshaphat's request Micaiah is sent for: who foretelleth Abab's death, and sheweth that his false prophets were possessed by a lying spirit. He is ill treated and sent to prison. Ahab goeth in disguise to the battle, where Jehoshaphat being mistaken for him narrowly escapeth being slain. Ahab is slain by an arrow shot at a venture.
2 Chronicles 18
Preface - John seeth four angels holding the four winds; and another angel coming to seal the servants of God in their foreheads. The number of them that were sealed out of each of the tribes of Israel. An innumerable multitude out of all other nations stand before the throne in white robes, with palms in their hands, praising God and the Lamb. The angels, elders, and beats, worship and glorify God. One of the elders sheweth John who they ae that are clad in white robes, and what is their blessedness for ever.
Revelation 7

Daily Light - Morning
Having loved his own which were in the world,
he loved them unto the end.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them... I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. - Christ...loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
Jn. 13.1; Jn. 17.9-10,15-16
Jn. 15.9; Jn. 15.13-14; Jn. 13.34
Phil. 1.6; Eph. 5.25-26

Daily Light - Evening
The deep things of God.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. - It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
1 Co. 2.10; Jn. 15.15; Mt. 13.11; Deu. 29.29
1 Co. 2.12
Eph. 3.14-16,17-19

A Puritans Catechism
Q5 - Are there more Gods than one?
A - There is but one only, the living and true God.


BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8 
PARAGRAPH 6

Although the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ until after His incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefit thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages, successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein He was revealed, and signified to be the seed which should bruise the serpent's head;34 and the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,35 being the same yesterday, and today and for ever.36​


34 1 Cor. 4:10; Heb. 4:2; 1 Pet. 1:10–11
35 Rev. 13:8
36 Heb. 13:8


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The preciousness of Christ to the believer
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: - 1 Peter 2 v 7
Consider how precious Christ is. 'In him is life eternal.' In Him there is pardon for the vilest of sinners. In Him there is sweet peace of conscience - peace with God. In Him there is rest for the weary soul - the way to the Father - an open door into the fold of God. In Him there is a fountain of living waters, unsearchable riches, full supplies of grace and truth for weak and weary souls. In Him there is acquittal at the judgement day, and a glorious crown. Oh, should you not leave all for this? Shall a lust, or a pleasure, or a game, or the smile of a friend, keep you from all this? 'Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, not hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.'