May 23rd, 2024

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Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs o fthose 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 evangelistice 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
Preface - A song inciting to confidence in God, for his judgments upon the adversary, and favour to his people. An exhortation to wait God's coming to judgment.
Isaiah 26
Preface - It is a mark of God's singulare love toward us, that we are now called his sons, and designed for thurther happiness hereafter: and therefore we must obediently keep his commandments, and love one another with true brotherly kindness and actual beneficence.
1 John 3


Daily Light - Morning
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The love of the Spirit. - The comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. - After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Eph. 4.30; Ro. 15.30; Jn. 14.26; Isa. 63.9-10
1 Jn. 4.13; Eph. 1.13-14; Ga. 5.16-17
Ro. 8.26


Daily Light - Evening
I will go and return to my place, till they
acknowledge their offence, and seek my face.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. - My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone... I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. - I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him. - Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hos. 5.15; Isa. 59.2; Song 5.6; Isa. 57.17-18; Jer. 2.17
Lu. 15.20; Hos. 14.4
1 Jn. 1.9


A Puritans Catechism
Q 77 - Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?
A - The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptised because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 4

This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake,21 which that He might discharge He was made under the law,22 and did perfectly fulfill it, and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have born and suffered,23 being made sin and a curse for us;24 enduring most grievous sorrows in His soul, and most painful sufferings in His body;25 was crucified, and died, and remained in the state of the dead, yet saw no corruption:26 on the third day He arose from the dead27 with the same body in which He suffered,28 with which He also ascended into heaven,29 and there sits at the right hand of His Father making intercession,30 and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world.31


21 Ps. 40:7–8; Heb. 10:5–10; John 10:18
22 Gal 4:4; Matt. 3:15
23 Gal. 3:13; Isa. 53:6; 1 Pet. 3:18
24 2 Cor. 5:21
25 Matt. 26:37,38; Luke 22:44; Matt. 27:46
26 Acts 13:37
27 1 Cor. 15:3–4
28 John 20:25,27
29 Mark 16:19; Acts 1:9–11
30 Rom. 8:34; Heb. 9:24
31 Acts 10:42; Rom. 14:9–10; Acts 1:11; 2 Pet. 2:4



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Open reward
Experimental knowledge
... One thing I know, that, wheras I was blind, now I see. - John 9 v 25
The first thing that the Holy Spirit does when he is converting a soul is to give light: 'Ye were some time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.' He pours a flood of light into the unconverted soul, so that it sees itself. You remember at the first creation of the world, God said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.' So it is at the conversion of a soul. The first thing that the Holy Spirit does, is to give knowledge to let us see things as they are - to let us see ourselves as we are - heaven as it is - hell as it is. This light, brethren, too, is sanctifying light. 'Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory.' And this is saving light: 'For this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.' You remember when Paul was converted, there were scales fell from his eyes, and he was enabled to see. Now this is just intended to show us what conversion is - it is as scales falling from the eyes - it is the giving of sight to the blind.