Daily Readings for Saturday 19th 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 - The feasts of the Lord. The sabbath. The passover. The sheaf of firstfruits. The feast of Pentecost. Gleanings to be left for the poor. The feast of trumpets. The day of atonement. The feast of tabernacles.
Leviticus 23
Preface - David praiseth God, and exhorteth others thereto from his own experience. They are blessed that trust in God. An exhortation to the fear of God. The privileges of the righteous.
Psalms 34



Daily Light - Morning
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.

The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. - Christ....hath one suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. - The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Through him we....have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. - Having....boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. - We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Jn. 10.7; Mt. 27.51; 1 Pe. 3.18; He. 9.8
Jn. 10.9
Jn. 14.6; Eph. 2.18-19; He. 10.19-20; Ro. 5.1-2

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Daily Light - Evening
His word was in mine heart as a burning fire
shut up in my bones, and I was weary
with forbearing, and I could not stay,

Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!... What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. - They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them.... We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. - The love of Christ constraineth us.

I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth.... Thou wicked and slothful servant....thou oughtest....to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Go....to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
Jer. 20.9; 1 Co. 9.16,18; Ac. 4.18-20; 2 Co. 5.14
Mt. 25.25-27
​Mk. 5.19
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 78 - How is baptism rightly administered?
A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, accordin gto Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 8
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To all those for whom Christ has obtained eternal redemption, He does certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same, making intercession for them;  (38)  uniting them to Himself by His Spirit, revealing to them, in and by His Word, the mystery of salvation, persuading them to believe and obey,  (39)  governing their hearts by His Word and Spirit,  (40)  and overcoming all their enemies by His almighty power and wisdom,  (41)  in such manner and ways as are most consonant to His wonderful and unsearchable dispensation; and all of free and absolute grace, without any condition foreseen in them to procure it.  (42)
(38)-John 6.37, 10.15-16, 17.9; Rom. 5.10  (39)-John 17.6; Eph. 1.9; 1 John 5.20  (40)-Rom. 8.9,14  (41)-Ps.110.1; 1 Cor. 15.25-26  (42)-John 3.8; Eph. 1.8

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Looking at Christ
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Philippians 2 v 7
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He was the eternal Son of God - equal with the Father in every thing, therefore equal in happiness. He had glory with Him before ever the world was. Yet His happiness also consisted in giving. He was far above all the angels, and therefore He gave far more than they all: 'The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.' He was highest, therefore He stooped lowest. They gave their willing services, He gave Himself: 'Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be made rich. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ.'
Now, dear Christians, some of you pray night and day to be branches of the true Vine; you pray to be made all over in the image of Christ. If so, you must be like Him in giving. A branch bears the same kind of fruit as the tree. If you be branches at all, you must bear the same fruit. An old divine says well: 'What would have become of us if Christ had been as saving of His blood as some men are of their money?'