Daily Readings for Saturday 3rd February 2024

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 - Satan appeareth again before God, and is allowed to make further trial of Job. He smiteth him with sore boils from head to foot. Job rebukth his wife, who moved him to curse God. Three of his friends visit him, and condole with him in silence.
Job 2
Preface - Though justified by grace, we may not live in sin; since the very figure of baptism requireth us to die with Christ unto sin, that we may lead a new life of holiness unto God. The dispensation of grace feeth us from the dominion of sin; but we are still the servants of sin, if we obey it; therefore being freed from sin, we are ound unto holiness. The end and wages of sin is death; but the fruit of holiness through God's grace is eternal life.
Romans 6


Daily Light - Morning
Be strong...and work:
for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. - Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - The joy of the LORD is your strength.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets. - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. - The LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hag. 2.4; Jn. 15.5; Phil. 4.13; Eph. 6.10; Ne. 8.10
Zech. 8.9; Isa. 35.3-4; Judg. 6.14
Ro. 8.31; 2 Co. 4.1
Ga. 6.9; 1 Co. 15.57


Daily Light - Evening
The darkness hideth not from thee.

His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. - Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?... Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Thou shalt not be afraied for the terror by night...nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness... Because thou has made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall nay plague come nigh thy dwelling. - He that keepeth thee will not slumber... The LORD is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.
Ps. 139.12; Job 34.21-22; Jer. 23.24
Ps. 91.5,6,9-10; Ps. 121.3,5-7
Ps. 23.4


A Puritans Catechism
Q53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.



BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 4

To them also he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution; their general equity only being of moral use.9

9 1 Cor. 9:8–10


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
O happy believer
... and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. - Proverbs 16 v 20
Become one with Christ, and even this moment you are lovely in the sight of God - comely, through His comeliness put upon you. You are as much accepted in the sight of God as is the Son of Man, the Beloved that sits on His right hand. The Spirit shall be given you, as surely as He is given to Christ. He is given to Christ as the oil of gladness, wherewith he is anointed above his fellows. You are as sure to wear a crown of glory, as that Christ is now wearing His. You are as sure to sit upon Christ's throne, as that Christ is now sitting on His Father's throne. O weep for joy, happy believer! O sing for gladness of heart: 'For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'