Daily Readings for Saturday 8th June 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; 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 - God sendeth comfort to his people in the remission of sins. The preaching of John the Baptist. The glad tidings of the gospel. God's infinite power and wisdom; the vanity of likening him to any other being. An exhortation to trust in God's power and providence without desponding.
Isaiah 40
Preface - A mighty angel appeareth with a book open in his hand; and sweareth by him that liveth for ever, that there shall be no more time. John is commanded to take and eat the book, and to prophesy.
Revelation 10


Daily Light - Morning
The LORD made all that he did 
to prosper in his hand.

Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. - Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. - Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

As long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. - Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day...and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Ge. 39.3; Ps. 128.1-2; Ps. 37.3-4; Jos. 1.9
Mt. 6.33
2 Chr. 26.5; Deu. 8.11,17
1 Chr. 22.18


Daily Light - Evening
Why reason ye these things
in your hearts?

Being not weak in faith, (Abraham) considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

It is easier to say to the sick of the palsy, thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? - If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. - Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? - Behold the fowls of the air...your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not...remember the five loaves of the five thousand?

My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Mk. 2.8; Ro. 4.19-20
Mk. 2.9; Mk. 9.23
Mt. 28.18; Mk. 4.40; Mt. 6.26; Mt. 16.8-9
Phil. 4.19


A Puritans Catechism
Q 10 - How did God create man?
A - God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 2
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This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature, being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead.

1. 2 Timothy 1:9 
2. Ephesians 2:8 
3. 1 Corinthians 2:14 
4. Ephesians 2:5 
5. John 5:25 
6. Ephesians 1:19,20

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Divine breathings
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost... - Judge v 20
When a believer prays, he is not alone - there are three with him: the Father seeing in secret. His ear open; the Son blotting out sin, and offering up the prayer; the Holy Ghost quickening and giving desires. There can be no true prayer without these three. Some people pray like a parrot, repeating words when the heart is far from God. Some pray without the the Father. They do not feel. They are speaking to the back of their chair, or to the world, or to the empty air. Some pray without the Son. They come in their own name - in their own righteousness. That is the sacrifice of fools. Some pray without the Holy Ghost. There are not filled with divine breathings. Dear friends, if you would live, you must pray; and if you would pray with acceptance, you must pray to the Father in the name of Jesus, and by His Spirit quickening.