Daily Readings for Saturday 4th January 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 - The birth, occupation, and religious behaviour of Cain and Abel. The murder of Abel, and the indictment, and curse of Cain for it. Enoch born; the first city built; the generations of Cain. Lamech and his two wives. The birth of Seth and Enos.
Genesis 4
Preface - Christ fasteth forty days, is tempted of the devil, and ministered unto by angels. He dwelleth in Capernaum: beginneth to preach; calleth Peter and Andrew; James and John; teacheth in the synagogues, and healeth the diseased.
Matthew 4


Daily Light - Morning
Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

This is not your rest. - There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. - Within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. - With Christ; which is far better.

God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Deu. 12.9; Mi. 2.10; He. 4.9; He. 6.19-20
Jn. 14.2-3; Phil. 1.23
Rev. 21.4; Job 3.17
Mt. 6.20-21; Col. 3.2


Daily Light - Evening
O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?

The sting of death is sin. - But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.
1 Co. 15.55; 1 Co. 15.56; He. 9.26-28
He. 2.14-15
​2 Tim. 4.6-8


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 55 - Which is the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 3
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Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men. (8) But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son, (9) by the help of the Spirit, (10) according to his will; (11) his with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue. (12)
(8) Ps. 95:1-7, 65:2  (9) John 14:13-14  (10) Rom. 8:26  (11) 1 John 5:14  (12) 1 Cor. 14:16-17
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​Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Look beyond
For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
Isaiah 44 v 3

Learn to look beyond ministers for a work of grace. God has given much honour to his ministers: but not the pouring out of the Spirit. He keeps that in His own hand: "I will pour." "It is not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Alas! we would have little hope, if it depended upon ministers; for where are our men of might now? God is able to do it today as He was at the day of Pentecost; but men are taken up with ministers and not with God. As long as you look to ministers, God cannot pour; for you would say it came from man. Ah! cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. One would think we would be humbled in the dust by this time. In how many parishes of Scotland has God raised up faithful men, who cease not day and night to warn every one with tears! And yet still the heavens are like brass, and the earth like iron. Why? Just because your eye is on man, and not on God, Oh! look off man to Him, and He will pour; and His shall be all the glory.