Daily Readings for Saturday 17th February 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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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
16) - Preface - Job reproveth his friends of inhumanity toward him; he pathetically describeth his unhappy case; still protecting his innocence, for which he maketh appeal to God.
17) - Preface - Job again appealeth to God from the harsh censures of his friends: whose unmerciful dealing may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. His hope is no longer in life, but in death. 
Job 16-17
Preface - Paul sheweth in what account such as he should be held, of whose fidelity it should be left to God to judge. He dissuadeth the Corinthians from valuing themselves in one teacher above another, since all had their respective distinctions from God. To their self-sufficient vanity he opposeth his own despised and afflicted state; warning them, as their only father in Christ, and urging them to follow him. For the same cause he sent Timotheus, and meant soon to follow in person, when he would enquire into the authority of such as opposed him.
1 Corinthians 4


Daily Light - Morning
The whole bullock shall he carry forth without the
camp unto a clean place, where the ashes ae poured
out, and burn him on the wood with fire.

They took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him. - The bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned wihtout the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. - The fellowship of his sufferings.

Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. - Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Lev. 4.12; Jn. 19.16-18; He. 13.11-13; Phil. 3.10
1 Pe. 4.13; 2 Co. 4.17


Daily Light - Evening
God created man in his own image.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ... We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. - If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
Ge. 1.27; Ac. 17.29
Eph. 2.4-5.10; Ro. 8.29
1 Jn. 3.2; Ps. 17.15
Rev. 21.7; Ro. 8.17


A Puritans Catechism
Q67 - What does every sin deserve?
A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.


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BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Religious Worship  and The Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 2

Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men.8 But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,9 by the help of the Spirit,10 according to his will;11 with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue.12

8 Ps. 95:1–7, 65:2
9 John 14:13–14
10 Rom. 8:26
11 1 John 5:14
12 1 Cor. 14:16–17




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A day's march nearer home
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. - Proverbs 4 v 18
When Israel was travelling the wilderness they came nearer to the good land every step they took. They had a long wilderness to pass through, still every day's journey brough them nearer to the end. So it is with all that are in Christ Jesus. Every step is bringing them nearer to heaven. Every day they are coming nearer and nearer to glory. 'Now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed'. 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand.' Every soul that is carried on the wings of the eagle is flying towards the rest that remaineth. The hours fly fast; but as fast flies that divine eagle. In running a race, every step brings you nearer to the end of it, nearer to the prized, to the crown.