Daily Readings for Saturday 24th May 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 - Two and forty journeys of the Israelites. The Canaanites are to be destroyed.
Numbers 33
Preface - An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.
Psalms 78:1-37



Daily Light - Morning
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The love of the Spirit. - The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned ot be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. - After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. - This I say the, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Eph 4.30; Ro. 15.30; Jn. 14.26; Isa. 63.9-10
1 Jn. 4.13; Eph. 1.13-14; Ga. 5.16-17
Ro. 8.26



Daily Light - Evening
I will go and return to my place, till they
acknowledge their offence, and seek my face.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. - My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone.... I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. - I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him. - Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way of, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hos. 5.15; Isa. 59.2; Song 5.6; Isa. 57.17-18; Jer. 2.17
Lu. 15.20; Hos. 14.4
1 Jn. 1.9
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 31 - What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A - They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Perseverance of the Saints
Chapter 17
PARAGRAPH 1
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Those whom God has accepted in the beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, and given the precious faith of his elect unto, can neither totally nor finally fall from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, a nd be eternally saved, seeing the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, from which source he will begets and nourishes in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope, and all the graces of the Spirit unto immortality;  (1)  and though many storms and floods arise and beat against them, yet they shall never be able to take them off that foundation and rock which by faith they are fastened upon; notwithstanding, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the sensible sight of the light and love of God may for a time be clouded and obscured from them,  (2)  yet he is still the same, and they shall be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being engraved upon the palm of his hands, and their names having been written in the book of life from all eternity.  (3)
(1)-John 10.38-29; Phil. 1.6; 2 Tim. 2.19; 1 John 2.19  (2)-Ps. 89.31-32; 1 Cor. 11.32  (3)-Mal. 3.6
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Experimental knowledge
.... One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John 9 V 25
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The first thing that the Holy Spirit does when he is converting a soul is to give light: 'Ye were some time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.' He pours a flood of light into the unconverted soul, so that it sees itself. You remember at the first creation of the world, God said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.' So it is at the conversion of a soul. The first thing that the Holy Spirit does, is to give knowledge to let us see things as they are - to let us see ourselves as we are - heaven as it is - hell as it is. This light, brethren, too, is sanctifying light. 'Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory.' And this is saving light: 'For this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.' You remember when Paul was converted, there were scales fell from his eyes, and he was enabled to see. Now this is just intended to show us what conversion is - it is as scales falling from the eyes - it is the giving of sight to the blind.