Daily Readings for Saturday 23rd March 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)
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 - From this chapter to the twenty-fifth are various observations of moral virtues and their dontrary vices.
Proverbs 10
Preface - Paul, in bonds for preaching Christ to the Gentiles, sheweth that the mystery of their calling, heretofore hidden, had been revealed to him, that by his ministry God's gracious purpose might be universally known, and the Gentiles be assured of their acceptance by faith. He desireth his Ephesian converts not to be discouraged at his sufferings on their account; and prayeth that God would strengthen their faith and knowledge of the infinite love of Christ. He giveth glory to God for his power in the church by Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3


Daily Light - Morning
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground... I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. - To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. - I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour... I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. - 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? - Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. - Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Rev. 4.8; Ps. 22.3; Ex.3.5,6; Isa. 40.25; Isa. 43.3,11
1 Pe. 1.15-16; 1 Co. 6.19; 2 Co. 6.16; Am. 3.3


Daily Light - Evening
They constrained him, saying, Abide with us.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. - Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? - I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go.

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. - I am come into my garden. - I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end o fthe world. - I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. - Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - The world seeth me no more; but ye see me.
Lu. 24.29; Rev. 3.20; Song 1.7; Song 3.4
Song 4.16; Song 5.1; Isa. 45.19
Mt. 28.20; He. 13.5; Mt. 18.20; Jn. 14.19


A Puritans Catechism
Q 19 - Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
A - God, having out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.


Of the Communion of Saints
Chapter 27
PARAGRAPH 1
All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by his Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with him, have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory;1 and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each others gifts and graces,2 and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.3

1 1 John 1:3; John 1:16; Phil. 3:10; Rom. 6:5–6
2 Eph. 4:15–16; 1 Cor. 12:7; 3:21–23
3 1 Thess. 5:11,14; Rom. 1:12; 1 John 3:17–18; Gal. 6:10



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The utmost farthing
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. - Romans 4 v 25
If you saw a criminal put into prison, and the prison doors closed behind him, and if you never saw him come out again, then you might well believe that he was still lying in prison, and still enduring the just sentence of the law. But if you saw the prison doors fly open, and the prisoner going free; if you saw him walking at large in the streets, then you would know at once that he had satisfied the justice of his country, that he had suffered all that it was needful to suffer, that he had paid the utmost farthing. So with the Lord Jesus, he was counted a criminal - the crimes of guilty sinners against God were all laid at His door, and he was condemned on account of them. He was hurried away to the death of the cross, and the gloomy prison-house of His rocky sepulchre where the stone was rolled to the mouth of the grave. If you never saw Him come out, then you might well believe that He was still enduring the just sentence of the law. But, lo! 'he is risen - he is not here' - 'Christ is risen indeed.' God, who was His judge, hath raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places; so that you may be quite sure He has satisfied the justice of God. He has suffered everything that it was needful for Him to suffer - He paid the utmost farthing.