Author: Charles Spurgeon

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As Thou hast bidden us pray for all men, so do we now especially pray for our beloved country. May every blessing rest upon our country. Upon our leaders let Thy mercies always descend. Keep this land in peace we beseech Thee; and as for all other lands, may peace yet reign. May oppression in every place be broken to shivers, and may truth and righteousness win the day.

Break in pieces the power of Antichrist, we pray Thee, and of the false prophet; and let the idols fall from their thrones, and may the Lord God Omnipotent yet reign, even Jesus, King of kings and Lord of lords. We ask it all in his name.

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Lord, convert our friends that still remain unsaved. Oh, mighty power of God, let none come into our presence, even accidentally and casually, without receiving some devout impression. May the Spirit of God work mightily by our ministry, and the ministration of all His servants now present, whether in the Sabbath school, or in the streets, or in the lodging-houses, or from door to door, or when they privately speak to individuals.

Oh, glorify Thyself in us! Dear Saviour, we pray Thee come and mark us all distinctly with the blood mark, as being wholly Thine, and henceforth may we say with Paul, “Let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” As we have been buried with Thee by baptism into death, so would we be dead to all the world and only live for Christ. God grant it may be so, and we will glorify Thee in life, and death, and for ever.

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Bless at this time very graciously the church to which we belong. Let us in this place know the power of prayer today and tomorrow: especially pour out upon the members of this church an intense spirit of supplication. May we agonize tomorrow for the glory of God, and today also, and let it not depart from us so long as we live. Send us, Lord, a mighty ground swell of intense desire for the glory of God, and may these Thy servants, banded together in church fellowship, recognise their sweet obligations to their dying Lord, and determine that the prayers of the church shall go up before Him like sweet perfume.

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O Jesus, let us love Thee so intensely, that whatever else there may be of loving relationship, still this may cover all and swallow up all. Oh, to be wholly Christ’s! We do mourn that we cannot reach to this—that in the secret of our hearts every devil should be cast out, every demon driven to its deep, every sin made hateful, every thought of sin made loathsome to us, until only pure desires and inward longings after perfect holiness shall predominate in our nature. O God, let the scourge still be used to drive out the buyers and sellers: we would not ask to have them spared, but let the temple be the Lord’s, seeing He hath built it and hath cleansed it with His blood.

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Our Lord and Master, Redeemer and Savior, come and take entire possession of us. We own your right; but you must take by force what you have purchased, or you will never have it. By force of arms, the arms must be those of love, will you capture our wilful, wayward spirit. Come and divide the spoil with the strong in us, we pray you. Take every faculty and use it, overpower and sanctify it. Every moment of our time help us to employ for you; every breath may we breathe out to your honor. We feel that there is unconquered territory in our nature yet. Subdue, Lord, we beseech you, our corruptions; cast them out, and in our spirit rule and conquer. There set up your eternal throne—

“Wean our heart from every creature,
You to love, and you alone.”

We do pray this with our whole hearts; and assist us, we pray you most blessed Redeemer, to show forth your praises in our lives.

Amen.

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We adore you, O Father, for your great love in the gift of Jesus. We equally adore you, most blessed Jesus, for resigning your life for our sakes. And then we adore the Blessed Spirit who has led us to know this mystery and to put our trust in Jesus. Unto the one God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we pay our reverent homage this morning; only we see him yet more clearly than the patriarchs of old did; for God in the face of Jesus Christ is seen in the clearest light that mortal eye can bear.

Oh, were there not a stone in our hearts, we should melt in love to you; we should account that there was no thought fit to occupy the mind but this one stupendous thought of God’s love to us: and henceforth this would be the master-key to our hearts, that should unlock or lock them at your will—the great love wherewith you have loved us.

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We lie in the very dust before you in utter shame, to think that we have sometimes heard the story of God’s love to us in Christ without emotion, and even told it without tenderness. The theme truly has never become stale to us. We can say in your presence that the story of Christ’s death still brings joy, and makes our hearts to leap.

But yet, Lord, it never has affected us as we could have expected it would. Give us more tenderness of heart, give us to feel the wounds of Jesus till they wound our sins to death. Give us to have a heart pierced even as his was, with deep sympathy for his griefs, and an all-consuming love for his blessed person.

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Gracious God, we praise you with our whole hearts for the wondrous revelation of your love in Christ Jesus our Lord.We think every day of his passion, for all our hope lies in his death: but as often as we think upon it, we are still filled with astonishment that you should so love the world as to give your only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life; that heaven’s eternal darling should come to earth to be made a man, and in manhood’s form to be despised and rejected of the very men whom he came to bless; and then should be made to bear the sin of many and to be numbered with the transgressors, and, being found in that number, to die a transgressor’s death, a felon’s death upon the gibbet of the cross.

Oh, this surpasses all belief if it had not indeed been actually so: and if the sure word of prophecy had not of old declared it, we could not have imagined it. It would have seemed blasphemy to have suggested such a thought; yet you have done it. Your grace has almost out-graced itself; your love has reached its height: love to rebels; so to love, that even your Son could not be spared. O God, we are afflicted in our hearts to think we do not love you more, after such love as this.

Amen.

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Lord bless us. We live unto you; our one aim in life is to glorify you, you know. For you, we hope we would gladly die. Yes, for you we will cheerfully labor while strength is given; but, Oh, send prosperity, and not to us only, but to all workers for Jesus, to all missions in foreign lands, and missions in the heathendom at home.

Bless all your churches far and near, especially the many churches speaking our own language across the Atlantic, as well as in this land. The Lord send plenteous prosperity to all the hosts of his Israel. May your kingdom come!