Daily Readings for Saturday 22nd February 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 - Pharaoh childeth Moses and Aaron for their message: he increasseth the taks of the Israelites. The people have no straw allowed them. Pharaoh checketh their complaints. They cry out upon Moses and Aaron. Moses complaineth to God.
Exodus 5
Preface - Christ preacheth through the cities, attended by his disciples, and ministered unto by devout women of their substance. The parable of the soer. Why Christ taught in parables. The parable expounded. Light is given to be improved and communicated. Christ sheweth whom he regardeth as his nearest relations: stilleth a tempest on the sea with his word: casteth out the legion of devils, and suffereth them to enter into the herd of swine: is entreated by the by the Gadarenes to depart, and sendeth back him that was healed to declare God's goodness: is besought by Jairus to go and heal his daughter: by the way he healeth a woman of an inveterate issue of blood: he raiseth Jairus' daughter to life.
Luke  8



Daily Light - Morning
What man is he that feareth the LORD?
him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

The light of the body is they eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Ps. 25.12; Mt. 6.22
Ps. 119.105; Isa. 30.21; Ps. 32.8-11
Jer. 10.23



Daily Light - Evening
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

There arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.

Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hears and minds through Christ Jesus.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. - He giveth his beloved sleep.

They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. - Absent from the body....present with the Lord.
Pro. 3.24; Mk. 4.37-38
Phil. 4.6-7
Ps. 4.8; Ps. 127.2
Ac. 7.59-60; 2 Co. 5.8


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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A - Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 2
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In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, but only a memorial of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the cross, once for all;  3  and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same.  4 So that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominable, injurious to Christ's own sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect.
(3)  Heb. 9.25-26,28;  4  1 Cor. 11.24; Matt. 26.26-27

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sweet companionship
.... thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 1 v 16

The soul in Christ has many sweet companions - brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. The soul that is united to the Vine-tree is united to all the branches. 'We know that we are passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.' 'I am a companion of all them that fear thee.'
Believers have many things to say to one another, as John says to Gaius: 'I had many things to write unto thee, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face;' So did believers in the days of Malachi: 'Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard.' (Malachi 3 v 16). And so do believers still. They may tell of their past experiences modestly, humbly, with self-loathing, and for the glory of Christ; as Jesus told the maniac: 'Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee' (Luke 8 v 39); and as David speaks: 'Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul' (Psalm 66 v 16).