Daily Readings for Saturday 28th December 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 - God by Malachi complaineth of Israel's ingratitude, and of the profane disrespect shown to God's worship. The curse of corrupt offerings.
Malachi 1
Preface - Judas betrayeth Jesus: the officers and soldiers at Christ's word fall to the ground: Peter cutteth off Malchus' ear: Jesus is led bound to Amas and Caiaphas: Peter denieth him: Jesus is examined by the high priest, and struck by one of the officers: Peter denieth him the second and third time: Jesus brought before Pilate, and examined, confesseth his kingdom not to be of this world: Pilate testifying his innocence, and offering to release him, the Jews prefer Barabbas.
John 18


Daily Light - Morning
Thy sins be forgiven thee.

I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. - Who can forgive sins but God only?

I even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. - Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity. - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?

God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace... Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Mk. 2.5; Jer. 31.34; Mk. 2.7
Isa. 43.25; Ps. 32.1-2; Mi. 7.18
Eph. 4.32; 1 Jn. 1.7-9
Ps. 103.12; Ro. 6.14,18


Daily Light - Evening
We would see Jesus.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. - Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. - Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Jn. 12.21; Isa. 26.8
Ps. 145.18
Mt. 18.20; Jn. 14.18; Mt. 28.20
He. 12.1-2
1 Co. 13.12; Phil. 1.23
1 Jn. 3.2-3


​A Puritans Catechism
​Q 48 - What is required in the third commandment?
A - The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Gospel and the Extent of Grace Thereof
Chapter 20
PARAGRAPH 3
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​The revelation of the gospel to sinners, made in divers times and by sundry parts, with the addition of promises and precepts for the obedience required therein, as to the nations and persons to whom it is granted, is merely of the sovereign will and good pleasure of God;6 not being annexed by virtue of any promise to the due improvement of men's natural abilities, by virtue of common light received without it, which none ever made, or can do so;7 and therefore in all ages, the preaching of the gospel has been granted unto persons and nations, as to the extent or straitening of it, in great variety, according to the counsel of the will of God.

6 Ps. 147:20; Acts 16:7
7 Rom. 1:18–32


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
High time to wake out of sleep
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Romans 13 v 11

In these words, Paul tells believers that it is waking time; and I would just tell you, dear friends, the same. It is high time for you to awake out of sleep. There is a condition among Christians which may be called sleeping; like the ten virgins, they slumber and sleep. Ah! I fear there are many sleeping Christians among you. It is waking time, believer. Do you know what o'clock it is? You do not seem to know how near sun-rise is.
I will now show you what it is to be sleeping Christians. It is to be one that has come to Christ, yet has fallen asleep in sin. Like the Church at Ephesus, they have left their first love. They do not retain that realisation of the Christ's preciousness - that freshness of believing. They have forgotten the fresh grasp of a Saviour. So it is with some among yourselves. You may have seen your sins; yet you have lost that fresh conviction of sin you once felt so deeply. You do not see such a beauty in Jesus. The more we look at Him, just the more we would look again. Earthly things pall upon the taste; but it is not so with things divine. They grow sweeter the offener you use them. So every time you look at Jesus, He grows more precious. The rose is sweet, yet it loses its smell; but the lovely Rose of Sharon grows sweeter and sweeter. Earthly apples lose their taste; but the apple tree does not so - 'Stay me with the flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.' Sleepy Christians, you have lost taste for the apples. Oh! is it not time for you to awake out of sleep? Believer, if you sleep on, you will soon doubt if ever you have come to Christ at all.