Daily Readings for Saturday 31st 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 - An exhortation to obedience from God's past dealings; and a particular dissuasive against idolatry, and solemn admonition of the ill consequences of disobedience, and of the happy consequences of returning to God. The especial regard shewn to the Israelites in God's wonderful dealings with them. Moses appointeth the three cities of refuge on the east side of Jordan. Recapitulation.
Deuteronomy 4
Psalms 86) Preface - David imploreth God's aid because of his need and religious faith; and of the power and goodness of God: he prayeth for grace, and promiseth praise for past mercies: complaining of the proud, he craveth some token of God's favour.
Psalms 87) Preface - The seat and glory of the church: the honourable distinction of its members.
Psalms 86-87



Daily Light - Morning
Thy name shall be called....Israel:
for as a prince hast thou power with God
and with men, and hast prevailed.

By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel,  and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him. - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. - If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. - Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Lord, Increase our faith.
Ge. 32.28; Hos. 12.3,4; Ro. 4.20
Mk. 11.22-24; Mk. 9.23; Lu. 1.45
​Lu. 17.5



Daily Light - Evening
Little children, abide in him.

He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another....though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.... Ye did run well; who did hinder you?

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.... If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
1 Jn. 2.28; Jas. 1.6-8
Ga. 1.6-8
Ga. 5.4,7
​Jn. 15.4,7; 2 Co. 1.20
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 38 - What shall be done to the wicked at their death?
A - The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection and the judgment of the great day.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Chapter 18
PARAGRAPH 4
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True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it,  (13)  by falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit;  (14)  by some sudden or vehement temptation,  (15)  by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light,  (16)  yet are they never destitute of the seed of God  (17)  and life of faith,  (18)  that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived,  (19)  and by the which, in the meantime, they are preserved from utter despair.  (20)
(13)-Cant. 5.2-3.6  (14)-Ps. 51.8,12,14  (15)-Ps. 116.11; 77.7-8, 31.22  (16)-Ps. 30.7  (17)-1 John 3.9  (18)-Luke 22.32  (19)-Ps. 42.5,11  (20)-Lam. 3.26-31
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Perfect love
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4 v 18

Twice God spake from heaven, and said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' God perfectly loves His own Son. He sees infinite beauty in His person. God sees Himself manifested. He is infinitely pleased with His finished work. The infinite heart of the infinite God flows out in love towards our Lord Jesus Christ. And there is no fear in the bosom of Christ. All His fears are past. Once He said, 'While I suffer thy terrors I am distressed;' but now He is in perfect love, and perfect love casteth out fear. Hearken trembling souls! Here you may find rest to your souls. You do not need to live another hour under your tormenting fears. Jesus Christ has borne the wrath of which you are afraid. He now stands a refuge for the oppressed - a refuge in the time of trouble. Look to Christ, and you will find rest. Call upon the name of the Lord, and you will be delivered.