Daily Readings for Saturday 3rd January 2026

Daily Prayer - Saturday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The altar is set up. The festival and daily burnt offerings renewed. Workmen employed in preparing materials for the building. Under the direction of Zerubbabel and Jeshua, the priests and Levites assisting, the foundation of the temple is laid amidst the rejoicing of some, and the weeping of others.
Ezra 3
Preface - The lame man healed by Peter and John: Peter declareth to the people that this cure was not wrought by any power or holiness in himself or John, but by the power of God through faith in the name of Jesus, whom they had ignorantly crucified, but whom God had raised from the dead according to the scriptures; and exhorteth them by faith to seek remission of sins and salvation in Jesus, whose coming had been spoken of by Moses and all the prophets.
Acts 3


Daily Light - Morning
He led them forth by the right way.

He found [Jacob] in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. - Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs, will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

The Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and live a spring of water, whose waters fail not. - For this GOD is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. - Who teacheth like him?
Ps. 107.7; Deu. 32.10-12; Isa. 46.4
Ps. 23.3-4
Isa. 58.11; Ps. 48.14; Job 36.22



Daily Light - Evening
What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?...
Lord, that I may receive my sight.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. - The Comforter, which is the Holy GHost, whom the Father will send in my name...shall teach you all things. - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory...give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.
Lu. 18.41; Ps. 119.18
Lu. 24.45; Jn. 14.26; Jas. 1.17
Eph. 1.17-19


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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 54 - What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
A. - The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity - as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good - to all such as keep this commandment.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 2
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Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these:

Of the Old Testament
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, The Son of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

Of the New Testament
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joh, The Acts of the Apostles, Pauls Epistle to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second and third Epistles of John, the Epistle of Jude, the Revelation.

All of which are given by the inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life.  (5)
5  2 Tim. 3.16

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Where lies the blame
.... brethren, pray for us .....
2 Thessalonians 3 v 1

Prayer is more powerful than preaching. It is prayer that gives preaching all its power. I observe that some Christians are  very ready to censure ministers, and to complain of their preaching, of their coldness, their unfaithfulness. God forbid that I should ever defend unfaithful preaching or coldness, or deadness, in the ambassador of Christ! May my right hand sooner forget its cunning! But I do say, Where lies the blame of unfaithfulness? Where, but in the want of faithful praying? Why, the very hands of Moses would have fallen down, had they not been held up by his faithful people. Come then ye wrestlers of God, ye that climb Jacob's ladder, ye that wrestle Jacob's wrestling - strive you with God, that He may fulfil His word.