Daily Readings for Saturday 19th July 2025

Daily Prayer - Saturday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - An angel rebuketh the people at Bochim for their disobedience to God's command. During the life of Joshua and of the elders who survived him the people serve the Lord; but in the next generation fall away to grievous idolatry. God's anger against them. His pity toward them in their distress, and their ungrateful behaviour. The Canaanites are therefore left to prove Israel.
Judges 2
Preface - The apostles, that the poor might not be neglected, recommend, and with the church's consent ordain seven chosen men deacons. The word of God prevaileth. Stephen, full of faith and the Holy Ghost, confuting those with whom he disputed, is brought before the council, and by suborned evidence falsely accused of blasphemy against the law and the temple.
Acts 6



Daily Light - Morning
He that is mighty
hath done to me great things;
and holy is his name.

Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. - Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy. - Hallowed be thy name.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. - I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us....be glory.
Lu. 1.49; Ex. 15.11; Ps. 86.8; Rev. 15.4; Mt. 6.9
Lu. 1.68
Isa. 63.1; Ps. 89.19
Eph. 3.20-21



Daily Light - Evening
The dew of Hermon.

Mount Sion, which is Hermon.. - There the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. - As the train cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. - And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. - It is like the precious ointment upon the head....even Aaron's....that went down to the skirts of his garments.
Ps. 133.3; Deu. 4.48; Ps. 133.3; Hos. 14.5
Deu. 32.2; Isa. 55.10-11
​Jn. 3.34; Jn. 1.16; Ps. 133.2
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 80 - What is the Lord's Supper?
A. - The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth; and the worthy receivers are not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 5
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A vow, which is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone, is to be made and performed with all religious care and faithfulness;  (8)  but popish monastical vows of perpetual single life,  (9)  professed poverty,  (10)  and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself.  (11)
(8)-Ps. 76.11; Gen. 28.20-22  (9)-1 Cor. 7.2-9  (10)-Eph. 4.28  (11)-Matt. 19.1

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Lost opportunity
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25 v 40

Many Christians are content to be Christians for themselves - to hug the gospel to themselves, to sit in their own room, and feast upon it alone. This did not Christ. It is true He loved much to be alone. He once said to His disciples: 'Come into a desert place, and rest a while.' He often spent the whole night in prayer on the lone mountain-side; but it is as true that He went about continually. He went and saw, and then He had compassion. He did not hide Himself from His own flesh. You should be
Christ-like. Your word should be: 'Go and see.' You should go and see the poor; and then you will feel for them. Remember what Jesus said to all His people: 'I was sick, and in prison and ye visited me.' Be not deceived, my dear friends; it is easy to give a cold pittance of charity at the church door, and to think that that is the religion of Jesus. But, 'Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in thier affliction, and to keep yourself unspotted from the world.'