Author: Charles Spurgeon

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Holiness of life we crave after. Grant that our speech, our thoughts, our actions, may all be holiness, and “holiness unto the Lord.” We know that there be some that seek after moral virtue apart from God. Let us not be of their kind; but may our desire be that everything should be done as unto the Lord, for you have said, “Walk before me, and be perfect.” Help us so to do, to have no master but our God, no law but his will, no delight but himself.

Oh, take these hearts, most glorious Lord, and keep them, for “out of them are the issues of life;” and let us be the instruments in your hand, by daily vigilance, of keeping our hearts, lest in heart we go astray from the Lord our God.

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O Lord Jesus, deepen in us our knowledge of you. You have made the first lines of your likeness upon our character; go on with this work of sacred art, until we are like you in all respects. We wish that we had greater power in private prayer, that we were more often wrestling with the covenant angel.

We would that the Word of God were more sweet to us, more intensely precious—that we had a deeper hunger and thirst after it. Oh, that our knowledge of the truth were more clear, and our grip of it more steadfast. Teach us, O Lord, to know the reason of the hope that is in us, and to be able to defend the faith against all comers. Plough deep in us, great Lord; and let the roots of your grace strike into the roots of our being, until it shall be no longer I that live, but “Christ that lives in me.”

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We have faith in Jesus, blessed be your name, but Oh strengthen and deepen that faith! May he be all in all to us; may we never look elsewhere for ground of rest, but abide in him with an unwavering, immutable confidence, that the Christ of God cannot fail nor be discouraged, but must forever be the salvation of his people.

We trust we can say also that we love the Lord, but Oh that we loved him more! Let this blessed flame feed on the very marrow of our bones. May the zeal of your house consume us; may we feel that we love the Lord with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, with all our strength; and hence may there be about our life a special consecration, an immoveable dedication unto the Lord alone.

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We bear our willing witness to the testimony of the Lord, we set our seal that “He is true” and we cry again, “Bind the sacrifice with cords, even with cords unto the horns of the altar.” From henceforth let no man trouble us, for we “bear in our body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” We are his branded servants, henceforth and forever. Our ear is nailed to our Master’s doorpost, to never leave again.

And now, Lord, we beseech you, hear the voice of our cry. Your people would first of all ask you to deepen in us all the good works of your grace. We do repent of sin—give us a deeper repentance! May we have a horror of it, may we dread the very approach of it, may we chastely flee from it and resolve, with sacred jealousy, that our hearts shall be for the Lord alone.

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We would this morning “take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.” We would “pay our vows unto the Lord now, in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of all his people.”

Blessed be the name of the Lord, we have been brought low, but the Lord has helped us; we have oftentimes wandered, but he has restored us; we have been tried, but he has preserved us; yea, we have found his paths to be “paths of pleasantness” and all the ways of his wisdom to be “ways of peace.”

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You have borne and carried us these years in the wilderness with unchanging love and goodness. You have made us and you carry us. You do not forsake the work of your own hands. “Your mercy endures forever,” and let your praise endure forever also.

O Lord, we would cling to you more firmly than ever we have done: we would say, “Return unto your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.”

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Blessed God, our heart praises you, our inmost soul exults in your name, for the Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever. Your people praise you, O God, for all that you have been to them, and we can each one set forth your worthy praise by reason of our personal experience of your goodness.

You have dealt well with your servants, O Lord, according to your Word. We bless you for teaching us from our youth; for some of us have known you, even from our childhood, and your Word was precious to us even in our earlier days, when, like young Samuel, we were spoken to of the Lord.

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Oh, that there might not be the power to put aside the Kingdom of God; but may the conscience now be so touched, and girded with strength, that the will may submit, and the judgment yield, and the affections bow, that God may reign over many a heart which has until now been a rebellious province of his domain.

Again we say, “Let the people praise you, O God; yes, let all the people praise you!” Save this assembly this day; let every one that is within these walls, or shall be here, be saved. And now may the good seed drop into furrows that shall welcome it; and from it may there spring a harvest to your glory, O you ever blessed, unto whose name be honor, world without end, through Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Let our great cities be swept clean of vice, and infidelity, and superstition. Deliver our country villages and hamlets from the drunkenness and ignorance in which they dwell. Let the whole earth behold the brightness of the coming of the Lord. Let Jesus Christ reign from pole to pole, until he himself shall come openly and manifestly to take to himself his great power, and all the kingdoms surrender themselves into his hands.

And now, Father, save any in this house who remain unreconciled to their God. Touch now, with your sacred finger, some careless heart that may be using even the House of God as a place for the gratification of curiosity, desiring no spiritual gift whatsoever; yet will you be pleased to lay your hand upon that heart, and make it feel that God is near; and may conscience say, “Be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near unto you.”

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Bless, we pray, all missionaries, all visitors from house to house, all those who seek to reclaim fallen women or orphans. Let the philanthropic work that is done in our city, ever be under your eye, and be upheld by your gracious hand.

Lord bless all that in any way seeks to make known the savor of the name of Jesus. Oh, give the humblest tongue that tells of Christ to speak with fire, and where the multitudes are gathered together, there give fervor and earnestness, sincerity and depth of power to bring sinners to Jesus. “Let the people praise you, O God, yes, let all the people praise you!”

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