Daily Readings for Saturday 21st September 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 - By the parable of a boiling pot is shewed the destruction of Jerusalem, the bloody city. Ezekiel is forbidden to mourn for the death of his wife, to denote that the calamity of the Jews shall be beyond all expressions of sorrow. In that day of affliction the prophet's mouth shall be opened to their conviction.
Ezekiel 24
Preface - David praying for Solomon, sheweth the happiness, justice, and glory, o fhis reign, and of Christ's kingdom under that type: he blesseth God.
Psalms 72


Daily Light - Morning
We know that all things work together
for good to them that love God.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. - Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.

All things are yours; whether...the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Ro. 8.28; Ps. 76.10; Ge. 50.20
1 Co. 3.21-23; 2 Co. 4.15-17
Jas. 1.2-4


Daily Light - Evening
The communion of the Holy Ghost,
be with you all.

I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. - He shall not speak of himself... He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit, - Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. - The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
2 Co. 13.14; Jn. 14.16-17; Jn. 16.13,14
Ro. 5.5
1 Co. 6.17; 1 Co. 6.19
Eph. 4.30; Ro. 8.26


A Puritans Catechism
Q 32 - What is justification?
A - Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Last Judgment
Chapter 32
PARAGRAPH 2
The end of God's appointing this day, is for the manifestation of the glory of his mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of his justice, in the eternal damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient;4 for then shall the righteous go into everlasting life, and receive that fulness of joy and glory with everlasting rewards, in the presence of the Lord; but the wicked, who do not know God, and do not obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast aside into everlasting torments,5 and punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.6
4 Rom. 9:22–23
5 Matt. 25:21,34; 2 Tim. 4:8
6 Matt. 25:46; Mark 9:48; 2 Thess. 1:7–10


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Distance makes no difference
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Luke 22 v 32

Brethren, if you had been behind some of the trees on Tabor's mount, and heard Him mention your name in prayer, saying, I do not pray for Peter only, or for James, or Joh, but for this soul. Father, sanctify this soul through thy truth. Father, I will that this soul be with me where I am, that it may behold my glory. Say, doubting sinner, if you had heard Christ mentioning thy name, would it not have given you peace? Does distance make any difference? Suppose you heard a friend praying for you in the next room, or suppose you were told that a friend residing in a foreign land prayed for you, would it make any difference? Now, suppose you are told Christ prays for you - for He prays for all His believing people - will you not take the comfort of it?