Daily Readings for Saturday 30th December 2023

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
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 - Josiah causeth a solemn passover to be kept. He goeth to fight with Pharaoh-necho, and is slain in battle at Megiddo. The lamentations made for him. His acts.
2 Chronicles 35
Preface - A new heaven and a new earth. The new Jerusalem. The blessedness of God's people; the judgment of the wicked. A description of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Revelations 21

Daily Light - Morning
Blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel. - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. - Sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Aman.
1 Co. 1.8; Col. 1.21-23; Phil. 2.15
2 Pe. 3.14; Phil. 1.10
Jude 24-25

Daily Light - Evening
He will keep the feet of his saints.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble... Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil man. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away... Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Sa. 2.9; 1 Jn. 1.6-7; Jn. 13.10
Pro. 4.11-12,14-15-27
2 Tim. 4.18

A Puritans Catechism
Q19 - 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.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Justification
Chapter 11 
PARAGRAPH 1
Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies,1 not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous;2 not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone;3 not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith,4 which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.5


1 Rom. 3:24, 8:30
2 Rom. 4:5–8, Eph. 1:7
3 1 Cor. 1:30–31, Rom. 5:17–19
4 Phil. 3:8–9; Eph. 2:8–10
5 John 1:12, Rom. 5:17

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Strength
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. - Psalm 84 v 5
Remember Jesus for us is all our righteousness before a holy God, and Jesus in us is all our strength in an ungodly world.


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