Daily Readings for Friday 2nd May 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.


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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 passover is commanded again. The case of some that were unclean. A second passover is allowed for such, and for the absent at the first. The cloud guideth the removals and encampments of the Israelites.
Numbers 9
Preface - The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. The duty of the church, and the benefits thereof.
Psalms 45



Daily Light - Morning
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them, - Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. - My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. - Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? - Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. - Ye are the temple of the living God.
Ge. 28.16; Mt. 18.20; Mt. 28.20; Ex. 33.14
Ps. 139.7-8; Jer. 23.23-24
1 Ki. 8.27; Isa. 57.15; 2 Co. 6.16



Daily Light - Evening
Keep yourselves from idols

My son, give me thine heart. - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? - Mortify....your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and overtousness, which is idolatry. - They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare.... For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things.

If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. - My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - The LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Jn. 5.21; Pro. 23.26; Col. 3.2
Ezek. 14.3; Col. 3.5; 1 Tim. 6.9-11
Ps. 62.10; Pro. 8.19
Mt. 6.21; 1 Sa. 16.7
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 9 - What is the work of creation?
A - The work of creation is God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 4
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God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect,  (11)  and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification;  (12)  nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit in time does actually apply Christ to them.  (13)
(11)-Gal. 3.8; 1 Pet. 1.2; 1 Tim. 2.6  (12)-Rom.4.25  (13)-Col. 1.21-22; Titus 3.4-7



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Satan keeps me from it
But whom the comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
John 15 v 26

I ought to study the Comforter more - His Godhead, His love, His almightiness. I have found by experience that nothing sanctifies me so much as meditating on the Comforter, as John 14 v 16 'And I will pray the Father, and he shall give me another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever,' And yet how seldom I do this! Satan keeps me from it. I am often like those men who said, They knew not if there be any Holy Ghost....I ought never to forget that my body is dwelt in by the Third Person of the Godhead. The very thought of this should make me tremble to sin, 1 Corinthians 6 v 19 .....I ought never forget that sin grieves the Holy Spirit - vexes and quenches him.....If I would be filled with the Spirit, I feel I must read the Bible more, pray more, and watch more.