Daily Readings for Saturday 11th May 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; 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
9) Preface - The joy of the church in the birth and kingdom of Christ. God's judgments upon Israel for their pride, impenitency, and wickedness.
10) Preface - God's judgments for injustice and oppression. The Assyrian, the instrument of God's vengeance, for his pride shall be broken. The remnant of Israel shall return after the determined desolation. Judah is comforted with a promise of deliverance from Assyria. The approach of the Assyrian to Jerusalem, and his destruction.
Isaiah 9:8-10:4
Preface - We must not rashly take upon ourselves to reprove others. The importance, difficulty, and duty, of governing the tongue. True wisdom will shew itself in meekness, peaceableness, and charity, in opposition to strife and envying.
James 3


Daily Light - Morning
Awake to righteousness,
and sin not.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day... Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. - Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherey ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit. - Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. - Little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 Co. 15.34; 1 Th. 5.5,6
Ro. 13.11-12; Eph. 6.13; Ezek. 18.31; Jas. 2.21; 1 Jn. 2.28-29



Daily Light - Evening
My sheep hear my voice.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled... I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Speak; for thy servant heareth. - When Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. - I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Jn. 10.27; Rev. 3.20
Song 5.2,6
1 Sa. 3.10; Lu. 10.5-6; Ps. 85.8


A Puritans Catechism
Q 64 - What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5
PARAGRAPH 6
As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as the righteous judge, for former sin does blind and harden;17 from them He not only withholds His grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understanding, and wrought upon their hearts;18 but sometimes also withdraws the gifts which they had,19 and exposes them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;20 and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan,21 whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, under those means which God uses for the softening of others.22

17 Rom. 1;24–26,28, 11:7–8
18 Deut. 29:4
19 Matt. 13:12
20 Deut. 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12–13
21 Ps. 81:11,12; 2 Thess. 2:10–12
22 Exod. 8:15,32; Isa. 6:9–10; 1 Pet. 2:7–8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Likeness to Jesus
Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. - Judges 8 v 18
It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as a great likeness to Jesus.