Daily Readings for Saturday 18th January 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 - Lot entetaineth two angels. The vicious Sodomites beset the house, and are stricken with blindness. Lot is directed to flee with his family to the mountains, but obtaineth leave to retire into Zoar. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Lot's wife is made a pillar of salt. Abraham seeth the dreadful overthrow. Lot retireth from Zoar to a cave in the mountain. The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.
Genesis 19
Preface - Christ proposeth a little child to his disciples for a pattern of innocence and humility; he warneth them to avoid offences, though at the expense of an hand, a foot, or an eye: and not to despise the little ones: he teacheth how to treat an offending brother, and how oft to forgive him, by the parable of a king.
Matthew 18



Daily Light - Morning
Him that was to come.

Jesus....made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death....that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. - One died for all. - As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. - That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. - God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. - God....hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son....the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. - Thou hast given him power over all flesh.

THe first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
Ro. 5.14; He. 2.9; 2 Co. 5.14; Ro. 5.19
1 co. 15.45; 1 Co. 15:46; Ge. 1.26,27; He. 1.13; Jn. 17.2
1 Co. 15.47-48


Daily Light - Evening
Thangs which shall be hereafter.

As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. - The Spirit of truth....will shew you things to come.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.... For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Rev. 1.19; 1 Co. 2.9-10; Jn. 16.13
Rev. 1.7
1 Th. 4.13-14,16-17


​A Puritans Catechism
Q 69 - What is faith in Jesus Christ?
A - Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth in the gospel.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Marriage
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 2
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Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, (2)  for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, (3) and the preventing of uncleanness. (4)
(2) Gen. 2:18 (3) Gen. 1:28 (4) 1 Cor. 7:2.9


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
When heaven came down
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles 5 v 14

Before the cloud came down, no doubt the priests were all busily engaged burning incense and offering sacrifices; but when the cloud came down, they could only wonder and adore. So it ever will be when the Lord gives much of his Spirit; He will make it evident that it is not the work of man.
If He were to give only a little then ministers would begin to think they had some hand in it, but when He fills the house, then He makes it plain that man has nothing to do with it. David Brainerd said, that when God awakened his whole congregation of Indians, he stood by amazed, and felt that he was as nothing - that God alone was working.
Oh, it is this, dear friends, that we desire and pray for - that the Lord the Spirit would himself descent, and with His almighty power tear away the veil from your hearts, convincing you of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; that Jesus Himself would take His sceptre and break your hard hearts, and take all the glory, that we may cry out 'Not unto Thy name give glory.'