Daily Readings for Friday 7th February 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering.      Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
​- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all salvation by the grace of God through Christ.


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 - Pharaoh's butler and baker in prison ae committed to Joeseph's charge. He interpreteth their dreams, which come to pass according to Joseph's interpretation. The ingratitude of the butler.
Genesis 40
Preface - Christ teacheth in Judaea: answereth the Pharisees' question concerning divorce: blesseth the children that were brought unto him: sheweth how hard it is for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God: promiseth rewards to all who have forsaken ought for his gospel's sake; foretelleth his own death and resurrection: putteth aside the ambitious suit of the sons of Zebedee; and checketh the indignation of the other disciples thereat: giveth sight to blind Bartimaeus.
Mark 10


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Daily Light - Morning
When thou has eaten and are full....
thou shalt bless the LORD thy God
for the good land which he hath given thee.

Beware that hou forget not the LORD thy God. - One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. - He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul....who forgiveth all thine iniquities....who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Deu. 8.10; Deu. 8.11; Lu. 17.15-18
1 Tim. 4.4-5; Ro. 14.6; Pro. 10.22
Ps. 103.1-2,3,4



Daily Light - Evening
Jesus....was moved with compassion toward them.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. - We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. - Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way. - He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Mt. 14.14; He. 13.8; He. 4.15; He. 5.2; Mk. 14.37-38
Ps. 103.13-14
Ps. 86.15-16

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 7 - What are the decrees of God?
A - The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his own will, whereby for his own glory he has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 10
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The work of pastors being constantly to attend the service of Christ, in his churches, in the ministry of the word and prayer, with watching for their souls, as they that must give an account to Him; (19) and it is incumbent on the churches to whom they minister, not only to give them all due respect, but also to communicate to them of all their good things according to their ability, (20) so as they may have a comfortable supply, without being themselves entangled in secular affairs; (21) and may also be capable of exercising hospitality towards others; (22)  in and this is required by the law of nature, and by the express order of our Lord Jesus, who has ordained that they that preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel. (23)
(19) Acts 6:4; Heb. 13:17 (20) 1 Tim. 5:17-18; Gal. 6.6-7. (21) 2 Tim. 2:4. (22) 1 Tim. 3:2 (23) 1 Cor. 9:6-14



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Soul thirst
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalm 42 v 1

These are supposed to be the words of David when he fled from his son Absalom. He seems to have been wandering in some solitary wild on the side of Mount Hermon, the stream of Jordan flowing at his feet. David seems to have been full of pensive meditation: for his enemies reproached him daily, saying: 'Where is thy God?' nay, even God seemed to forget him, all his waves and billows were going over him; when suddenly a deer bounded past him. It had been sore wounded by the archers, or pursued by some wild beast on the mountains of the leopards. Faint and weary, he saw it rushing towards the flowing stream, and quenching its thirst in the water brook. His soul was quickened by the sight. Is not his just a picture of what I should be? Is not my God all to me that the flowing stream is to that wounded deer? 'As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.'