Daily Readings for Saturday 1st March 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 beginning of the year is changed. The passover is instituted. The rite of the passover. The day of unleavened bread. Moses giveth directions to keep the passover. The firstborn are slain. The Israelites are driven out of the land. They come to Succoth. The time of the Israelites' sojourning in Egypt. The ordinance of the passover.
Exodus 12:22-51
Preface - The Pharisees murmur at Christ for receiving sinners. The parable of the lost sheep, and piece of silver; and of the prodigal son.
Luke  15



Daily Light - Morning
The fruit of the Spirit is love....

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. - THe love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - Unto you....which believe he is precious. - We love him, because he first loved us. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. - This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. - Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ga. 5.22; 1 Jn. 4.16; Ro. 5.5; 1 Pe. 2.7; 1 Jn. 4.19; 2 Co. 5.14-15
1 Th. 4.9; Jn. 15.12; 1 Pe. 4.8; Eph. 5.2


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Daily Light - Evening
Jehovah-nissi. [marg. The Lord my banner]

If God be for us, who can be against us? - The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. - The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?.... Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Behold, God himself is with us for our captain. - The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Thee shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?.... He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. - Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Ex. 17.15; Ro. 8.31; Ps. 118.6
Ps. 60.4; Ps. 27.1,3
2 Chr. 13.12; Ps. 46.7
Rev. 17.14
​Ps. 2.1,4; Isa. 8.10


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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 29 - How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the State of Man after Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead
Chapter 31
PARAGRAPH 1
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The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption;  (1)  but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.  (2)  The souls of the righteous being then made perfect in holiness, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ, and behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies;  (3)  and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell; where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day;  (4)  besides these two places, for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
(1)  Gen. 3.19; Acts 13.36  (2)  Eccles. 12.7.  (3)  Luke 23.43; 2 Cor. 5.1-6,8; Phil. 1.23; Heb. 12.23  (4)  Jude 6,7; 1 Peter 3.19; Luke 16.23,24

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Positive sin
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Timothy 5 v 8

If you do not worship God in your family, you are living in positive sin, you may be quite sure you do not care for the souls of your family. If you neglected to spread a meal for your children to eat, would it not be said  that you did not care for their bodies? And if you do not lead your children and servants to the green pastures of God's Word, and to seek the living water, how plain is it that you do not care for their souls! Do it regularly, morning and evening. It is more needful than your daily food - more needful than your work. How vain and silly all your excuses will appear, when you look back from hell! Do it fully. Some clip off the psalm, and some the reading of the Word; and so the worship of God is reduced to a mockery. Do it in a spiritual, lively manner. Go to it as to a well of salvation. There is, perhaps, no means of grace more blessed. Let all your family be present without fail. - let none be absent.