Daily Readings for Saturday 16th November 2024

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
Preface - A lamentation for Israel. An exhortation to repentance. God rejecteth their hypocritical service.
Amos 5
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 1:1-38


Daily Light - Morning
Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul ;discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of hi mouth more than my necessary food. - I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. - If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jn. 17.17; Jn. 15.3; Col. 3.16
Ps. 119.9-10
Pro. 2.10-11
Job 23.11-12; Ps. 119.99; Jn. 8.31-32


Daily Light - Evening
Fellowcitizens with the saints.

Ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. - Our conversation (Greek citizenship) is in heave; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. - The Father...hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

As stranger and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Eph. 2.19; He. 12.22-23
He. 11.13; Phil. 3.20-21; Col. 1.12,13
1 Pe. 2.11


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 6 - How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A - There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy GHost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 1
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Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call,1 by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;2 enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God;3 taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them a heart of flesh;4 renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;5 yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.6
1 Rom. 8:30, 11:7; Eph. 1:10–11; 2 Thess. 2:13–14
2 Eph. 2:1–6
3 Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:17–18
4 Ezek. 36:26
5 Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 36:27; Eph. 1:19
6 Ps. 110:3; Cant. 1:4

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The world crucified to the believer
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world
Galatians 6 v 14
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The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world - 'If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature.' When the blind beggar of Jericho got his eyes opened by the Lord, this world was all changed to him, and he to the world. So it was with Paul. No sooner did he rise from his knees, with the peace of Jesus in his heart, than the world got its death blow in his eyes. As he hurried over the smooth stones of the streets of Damascus, or looked down from the flat roof of his house upon the lovely gardens on the banks of the Abana, the world and all its dazzling show seemed to his eye a poor, shrivelled, crucified thing. Once it was his all. Once its soft and slippery flatteries were pleasant as music to his ear. Riches, beauty, pleasure, all that the natural eye admires, his heart was once set upon; but the moment he believed on Jesus all these began to die. True, they were not dead, but they were nailed to a cross. They no more had that living attraction for him they once had; and now every day they began to lose their power. As a dying man on the cross grows weaker and weaker every moment, while his heart's blood trickles from the deep gashes in his hands and feet, so the world, that was once his all, began to lose every moment its attractive power. He tasted so much sweetness in Christ, in pardon, access to God, the smile of God, the indwelling Spirit, that the world became every day a more tasteless world to him.