Daily Readings for Saturday 7th December 2024

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
Preface - Unto Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, is showed that he must wait in faith. The judgment of the Chaldeans for insatiableness, ambition, cruelty, treacherous dealing and idolatry.
Habakkuk 2
Preface - Christ valueth the poor widow's two mites above all the larger offerings of the rich: foretelleth the destruction of the temple; the signs and calamities that should precede and accompany it; and what should happen at the time of the Son of man's coming: he exhorteth to watchfulness and prayer.
Luke 21


Daily Light - Morning
He hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him.

The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. - As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. - there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
2 Co. 5.21; Isa. 53.6; 1 Pe. 2.24; Ro. 5.19
Titus 3.4-7; Ro. 8.1
Jer. 23.6


Daily Light - Evening
I will be as the dew unto Israel.

The meekness and gentleness of Christ. - His favour is as dew upon the grass.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord... And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.

And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherds: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Hos. 14.5; 2 Co. 10.1; Pro. 19.12
Isa. 42.3
Lu. 4.18-19,21-22
Lu. 22.61-62
Isa. 40.11


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 27 - Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?
A - Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 5
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Such is the provision which God has made through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation, that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation,8 yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation to them that repent,9 which makes the constant preaching of repentance necessary.
8 Rom. 6:23
9 Isa. 1:16–18, 55:7


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sowing and reaping
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes 11 v 1

So it is in giving liberally to the poor out of the love of Jesus. Yet fear not; you shall find a crop after many days. You say, 'If I were a rich Christian, how happy would I be to give!' Now, I just ask you to look at the man sowing seed. When he has but little, does he keep back from sowing that little? No; he sows the more anxiously the little he has. Do you the same.