Daily Readings for Friday 24th January 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 - The sons of Abraham by Keturah. The division of his goods. His age, death, and burial. God blesseth Isaac. The generations of Ishmael, his age, and death. Isaac''s descent and alliance by marriage. Rebekah being barren, he prayeth for her; she conceiveth; the children strive in her womb, which is a token of the future fortunes of their posterity. The birth of Esau and Jacob. The difference of their life and manners. Esau selleth his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 25
Preface - Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple: he showeth what signs and calamities shall go before it; and what shall happen at the time of his coming. By a parable of the fig tree he marketh the cetainty of the predition. No man knoweth the day and hour, which shall come suddenly. We ought therefore to watch, like good servants who expect their master's coming.
Matthew 24


Daily Light - Morning
The Lord is at hand.

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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. - Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Phil. 4.5; 1 Th. 4.16-18; Rev. 22.20
2 Pe. 3.14; 1 Th. 5.22-24
Jas. 5.8


Daily Light - Evening
The choice vine.

My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine....and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. - Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit....Abide in me, and I in you.... Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Ge. 49.11; Isa. 5.1-2; Jer. 2.21
Ga. 5.19-23
Jn. 15.1-2,4,8


A Puritans Catechism
Q 75 - What is baptism?
A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted  into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 3
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Civil magistrates being set up by God for the ends aforesaid; subjection, in all lawful things commanded by them, ought to be yielded by us in the Lord, not only for wrath, but for conscience' sake; (4) but and we ought to make supplications and prayers for kings and all that are in authority, that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty. (5)
(4) Rom. 13:5-7; 1 Pet. 2:17, (5) 1 Tim. 2:1-2


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Fruitful to the last
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flouish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.
Psalm 92 v 12-14

The palm tree and cedar have both this wonderful property, that they are fruitful to the last: and so it is with the living believer - he is a Christian to the last - full of the Spirit, full of love, full of holiness to the last. Like fine wine, the older the better. 'The path of the just is like the sining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.'