Daily Readings for Saturday 18th May 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; 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
17) Preface - Syria and Israel are threatened. A remnant of Israel shall forsake idolatry. The desolation of the rest. The rebuke of the enemies of Israel.
18) Preface - God threateneth to destroy the Ethiopians. An access will from thence be made to the church.
Isaiah 17-18
Preface - The elders are exhorted to feed the flock of Christ conscientiously, looking to the chief Shepherd for a reward. The younger are required to submit to the elder, and all to practise humility toward each other; with resignation to God; to be sober, watchful, and stedfast in the faith, resisting the devil. The epistle is concluded with a prayer and benediction.
1 Peter 5


Daily Light - Morning
As the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ...hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. - I am the resurrection, and the life. - Because I live, ye shall live also. - We are made partakers of Christ. - Partakers of the Holy Ghost. - Partakers of the divine nature. - The first man Adam was made a living soul; and last Adam was made a quickening spirit. - Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. - Who liveth for ever and ever. - The blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality. - Unto the King eternal, immortal...be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Jn. 5.26; 2 Tim. 1.10; Jn. 11.25; Jn. 14.19; He. 3.14; He. 6.24; 2 Pe. 14; 1 Co. 15.45; 1 Co. 15.51-52
Rev. 4.8; Rev. 4.9; 1 Tim. 6.15-16; 1 Tim. 1.17


Daily LIght - Evening
Let us not be desirous of vain glory.

Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey... And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. - Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there wa given to me a thorn in the flesh.

Let nothing be done, through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. - Charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.
Ga. 5.26; Judg. 8.24-25,27
Jer. 45.5; 2 Co. 12.7
Phil. 2.3; 1 Co. 13.4-5
Mt. 11.29


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 1

The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to Him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which He hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.1

1 Luke 17:10; Job 35:7–8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ our righteous
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. - 1 Corinthians 15 v 22
We have seen that in the fall and ruin of man, it pleased God to deal with man, not as a field of corn, each standing on his own root, but as a tree, in which all the branches stand or fall together. We were not made sinners, each by his individual sin, but all by the sin of one. In like manner it has pleased God to justify sinners, not each by his own obedience, by his own goodness and holiness, but 'by the obedience of one.' Just as Adam  by his one sin brought death, the curse of God, and total spiritual death, not only upon himself, but though unborn; so the second Adam, by His own obedience, brought pardon, righteousness, spiritual life, and eternal glory to all His branches, even the most distant, the smallest, even those unborn.