Daily Readings for Saturday 7th June 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 - Moses continueth his exhortation to obedience, from the people's personal experience of God's great works, and their future expectations in the land of promise. The character of the land; which God will render fruitful or barren according as they behave. A careful study in these words is required of them, and instruction of their children therein. Victory and an extensive territory will reward their obedience. The blessing and curse set before them.
Deuteronomy 11
Psalms 95) Preface - An exhortation to praise God for his greatness, and for creating and preserving us: and not to tempt him as did Israel in the wilderness.
Psalms 96) Preface - An exhortation to celebrate the greatness and majesty of God, and to rejoice in his righteous government of the world.
Psalms 95-96



Daily Light - Morning
Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.... As a prince hast thou power with God and with men.  - Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.

[Jesus] went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Lu. 18.1; Lu. 11.5-8; Eph. 6.18
Ge. 32.26,28; Col. 4.2
Lu. 6.12



Daily Light - Evening
Forgive all my sins.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. - 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. - Having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.

Bless the LORD, O my soul....who forgiveth all thine iniquities.
Ps. 25.18; Isa. 1.18
Mt. 9.2; Isa. 43.25
Mt. 9.6; Eph. 1.7; Titus 3.5-6; Col. 2.13-14
Ps. 103.2,3
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.



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
A family quarrel
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis 13 vs 7-8

Domestic trials are not easy to bear. Most believers would like to go to heaven without a crook in their lot. I have no doubt that Jacob would have liked to have gone to heaven without the trial he had in the loss of Joseph; I have no doubt that David would have liked to have gone to heaven without the trial he had in the death of Absalom; and I have no doubt that Abraham would have liked to have gone to the better land without this strife breaking out between Lot and him. But it must not be.
The reason why domestic trials happen are - first, for the trial of our faith. Just as the jeweller puts the gold into the crucible, not to destroy the gold, but to separate it from the dross, so trials are intended by God to separate us from all dross. Another reason is to make us long for the better country. When God permits strife to rise in a believing family, it is to show you that this is not our home.