Daily Readings for Saturday 23rd November 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 - The prayer of Jonah. He is delivered out of the belly of the fish.
Jonah 2
Preface - Christ admireth the centurion's singular faith, and healeth his absent servant: he raiseth to life the widow's son at Nain: and sendeth back the messengers of John with an account of the miracles they had seen wrought by him: his testimony of John: he reproveth the perverseness of the people, who were not to be won either by the manners of John or himself:  He alloweth his feet to be washed and anointed by a woman who had been a sinner; and in a parable sheweth that even the worst of sinners, may be forgiven upon the terms of a sincere repentance.
Luke 7



Daily Light - Morning
Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and
shall be quiet from fear of evil.

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. - He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. - His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Your life is hid with Christ in God. - He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye, - Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD... The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, Therefore will not we fear. - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. - Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Pro. 1.33; Ps. 90.1; Ps. 91.1; Ps. 91.4
Col. 3.3; Zech. 2.8; Ex. 14.13-14; Ps. 46.1,2; Jn. 16.33
Mt. 14.27; Lu. 24.38-39; 2 Tim. 1.12


Daily Light - Evening
My kingdom is not of this world.

This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. - Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. - He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of lords.
Jn. 18.36; He. 10.12-13; Mt. 26.64
1 Co. 15.25
1 Co. 15.57; Eph. 1.20-23; 1 Tim. 6.15


A Puritans Catechism​
Q 13 - Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A - Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from that initial state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, by eating the forbidden fruit.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 4
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​God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect,11 and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification;12 nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit in time does actually apply Christ to them.13
11 Gal. 3:8, 1 Pet. 1:2, 1 Tim. 2:6
12 Rom. 4:25
13 Col. 1:21–22, Titus 3:4–7


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Good news
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
2 Corinthians 8 v 9
Corinth was one of the most wicked cities that ever was on the face of the world. It lay between two seas; so that luxury came flowing in from the east and from the west. These Corinthians had been saved from the deepest abominations, as you learn from 1 Corinthians 6 v 11: 'Such were some of you'; and yet it was for the sake of such that the Lord of glory became poor - 'For your sakes'. In like manner, Paul writing to the Romans, says: 'When we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly' (5:6). Ah! see what names are here given to those for whom Christ died: without strength - unable  to believe, or to think a right thought; ungodly - living as if there were no God; sinners - breaking God's holy law; enemies - hating and opposing a holy God of love.
Oh, brethren! This is good news for the most wicked of men. Are there some of you who feel that you are like a beast before God, or all over sin, like a devil? Some of you have lived in the abominations of Corinth. Some of you are like the Romans - without strength, ungodly, sinners, enemies; yet for your sakes Christ became poor. He left glory for souls as vile as you. He left the songs of angels, the love of his Father, and the glories of heaven for just such wretches as you and me. He died for the ungodly. So not be afraid, sinners, to lay hold upon him. It was for your sakes he came. He will not , he cannot cast you out.