Daily Readings for Saturday 2nd December 2023

Prayer
-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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 solemn offering of Solomon at Gibeon. God appeareth unto him there by night, and leaveth to his choice what blessing to ask: he asketh wisdom, to which God addeth riches and honour. Solomon's forces and opulence.
2 Chronicles 1
Preface - The apostle professeth to declare what he had formerly seen and known of the Word of life, to the end that others might have fellowship with him. The substance of his doctrine is, that to have fellowship with God, we must be holy as he is holy; and that if we confess our sins, we shall be forgiven through the blood of Christ.
1 John 1

Daily Light - Morning
Ye have an unction from the Holy One,
and ye know all things.

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power. - It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell. - Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Thou anointest my head with oil. - The anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1 Jn. 2.20; Ac. 10.38; Col. 1.19; Jn. 1.16
Ps. 23.5; 1 Jn. 2.27
Jn. 14.26
Ro. 8.26

Daily Light - Evening
Having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience.

If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? - The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people... Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
He. 10.22; He. 9.13-14; He. 12.24
Eph. 1.7
He. 9.19, 21-22

A Puritans Catechism
Q73 - How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
A - That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith, and love, lay it up into our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5  
PARAGRAPH 7

As the providence of God does in general reach to all creatures, so after a more special manner it takes care of His church, and disposes of all things to the good thereof.23

23 1 Tim. 4:10; Amos 9:8–9; Isa. 43:3–5

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A day of double blessing
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. - Revelation 1 v 10
When God instituted the Sabbath in paradise, it is said, 'God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.' He not only set it apart as a sacred day, but made it a day of blessing. Again, when the Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week before dawn, He revealed Himself the same day to two disciples going to Emmaus, and made their hearts burn within them (Luke 24 v. 13). The same evening He came and stood in the midst of the disciples, and said, 'Peace be unto you,' and He breathed on them and said, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost' (John 20 v. 19).
Again, after eight days, - that is, the next Lord's day, - Jesus came and stood in the midst, and revealed Himself with unspeakable grace to unbelieving Thomas (John 20 v. 26). It was on the Lord's day also that the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost (Acts 2 v. 1; compare Lev. 23 vs. 15-16). That beginning of all spiritual blessings, that first revival of the Christian Church, was on the Lord's day. It was on the same day that the beloved John, an exile on the sea-girt isle of Patmos, far away from the assembly of the saints, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and of the world, and in every place where there is a believer, the Sabbath has been a day of double blessing. It is so still, and will be, though all God's enemies should gnash their teeth at it. True, God is a God of free grace, and confines His working to no time or place; but it is equally true, and all the scoffs of the infidel cannot alter it, that it pleases Him to bless His word most on the Lord's day. All God's faithful ministers in every land can bear witness that sinners are converted most frequently on the Lord's day - that Jesus comes in and shows Himself through the lattice of ordinances oftenest on His own day. Saints, like John, are filled with the Spirit on the Lord's day, and enjoy their calmest, deepest views into the eternal world.



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