Daily Readings for Friday 16th 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 - Israel at Shittin commit whoredom and idolatry. Phinehas killeth Zimri and Cozbi. God therefore giveth him an everlasting priesthood. God commandeth Moses to vex the Midianites.
Numbers 25
Preface - A prayer at the removing of the ark. An exhortation to praise God for his mercies, for his former care of the church, and daily providence over it. The church hath confidence in his future protection. The magnificent pomp of bringing up the ark. A prayer for the confirmation of God's goodness to his church. An exhortation to all kingdoms to praise the God of Israel.
Psalms 68



Daily Light - Morning
A servant of Jesus Christ.

Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. - If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be; if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. - Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. - Thou art no more a servant, but a son.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.... For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh.
Ro. 1.1; Jn. 13.13; Jn. 12.26; Mt. 11.29-30
Phil. 3.7; Ro. 6.22
Jn. 15.15; Ga. 4.7
Ga. 5.1,13



Daily Light - Evening
I will bless the LORD,
who hath given me counsel.

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor. - Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. - Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. - Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - He knoweth the way that I take. - Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. - This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Ps. 16.7; Isa. 9.6; Pro. 8.14; Ps. 119.105; Pro. 3.5-6
Jer. 10.23; Isa. 30.21; Pro. 16.3; Job 23.10; Pro. 20.24
Ps. 73.24; Ps. 48.14
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 23 - How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A - Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.



The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Good Works
Chapter 16
PARAGRAPH 1
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Good works are only such as God has commanded in his Holy Word,  (1)  and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intentions  (2)
(1)-Mic. 6.8; Heb. 13.21  (2)-Matt. 15.9; Isa. 29.13

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Eternity
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10 v 31

In the time of health and strength, it is common for men to boast against God. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men; therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain. They can sin with a high hand. But when they are brought to the brink of the grave by fever or wasting consumption - when they need someone to turn them on their bed, or to hold up their fainting head, or to feed them like a child - then we see that a sinner is nothing in the hands of an angry God.
And O what will it be in eternity, when he falls into the hands of the living God! Perhaps he doubted whether there was a God; but all of a sudden he sees there is a God. He thought there was no hell, and laughed at those who believed it - in a moment he is tossing among its fiery waves; and now he feels it must be eternal. After a thousand years it is but beginning, and no nearer an end. The soul will sink into insupportable gloom - it will wish to die, and not be able. 'What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?' O brethren, flee from the wrath to come! You cannot bear it. Can you bear a fever or the stroke of palsy, or a strike of lightning, or wasting consumption? And these are but the little finger of the hand of God's anger.