Daily Readings for Saturday 14th 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 - Zecharia exhorteth to repentance. His vision of the horses and their angelic riders. At the prayer of the angel comforting promises are made to Jerusalem. The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters.
Zecharia 1
Preface - Christ talketh with a woman of Samaria, and revealeth himself unto her: his disciples marvel; the woman calleth the men of her city to see him: Christ sheweth his own zeal to do God's work, and the blessedness of his disciples, who were to reap the fruit of his labours. Many Samaritans believe on him. He goeth into Galilee, and healeth a nobleman's son who lay sick at Capernaum.
John 4


Daily Light - Morning
Make his praise glorious.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. - I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth. - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. - Who is like unto thee, O LORD...glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? - I will praise the name of God with a son, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. - They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty.
Ps. 66.2; Isa. 43.21; Jer. 33.8,9; He. 13.15
Ps. 86.12-13; Ex. 15.11; Ps. 69.30; Rev. 15.3


Daily Light - Evening
By nature the children of wrath, even as others.

We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. - Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? - Job answered the LORD, and said, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. - David...to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Eph. 2.3; Titus 3.3; Jn. 3.7
Job 1.8; Job 40.3,4
Ps. 51.5; Ac. 13.22
1 Tim. 1.12-13
Jn. 3.6


A Puritans Catechism
Q 34 - What is sanctification?
A - Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 7
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​Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and to others;19 yet because they proceed not from a heart purified by faith,20 nor are done in a right manner according to the Word,21 nor to a right end, the glory of God,22 they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, nor make a man meet to receive the grace from God,23 and yet their neglect for them is more sinful and displeasing to God.24
19 2 Kings 10:30; 1 Kings 21:27,29
20 Gen. 4:5; Heb. 11:4,6
21 1 Cor. 13:1
22 Matt. 6:2,5
23 Amos 5:21–22; Rom. 9:16; Titus 3:5
24 Job 21:14–15; Matt. 25:41–43


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Love's overflow
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
John 14 v 6

It is the saying of an old divine, that God often orders it, that when He is in hand with the greatest mercies for us, then we are most of all sinning against Him; which He doth to magnify His love the more.
In the words I have read, we find an example of this. At no time did the heart of Jesus overflow with a tender and more sovereign love to His disciples, than when He said 'Let not your heart be troubled.' They were troubled by many things. He had told them that He was going to leave them; He had told them that one should betray Him - that another should deny Him - That they should all be offended because of Him that very night; and perhaps they thought He was going from them in anger. But, whatever the cause of their trouble was, Jesus' bosom was like a vessel full to overflowing, and these words were the overlipping drops of love - 'Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.