Author: Charles Spurgeon

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This morning, be pleased to accept the thanksgivings of your servants for any special mercies received, and especially of one who begs us to thank you for your grace and mercy extended to her, and to the little ones with whom she was about to cross the sea. They went through fire and through water, but still you preserved them; and we pray God speed them on their way to the distant land.

Bless that sister who spends her life in gathering the children in the street, that she may take them to a land where they will be well cared for. Oh Lord, prosper her and all others that in any way seek the good of the poor and needy.

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Gracious God, we pray, work in us such a holy love to you, that we may render to you all that we have. We have sometimes said in our soul: “Take not tithe, but take all.” Keep us true to this. May we feel that we are “not our own, but bought with a price,” and let this be no sentiment which ought to have power over us, but a real force which constrains us, because “we thus judge that if one died for all, then all died, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him that died for them and rose again.”

We do pray for grace, that we may spend all our time, every faculty, and all that we possess in glorifying our Lord and Master among the sons of men, in “Works which perfect saints above and holy angels cannot do.”

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Lord, if you give us choice to keep our sins and to live in pleasure, or to have them burnt away with trial, we will say to you, Lord, give us the sanctified affliction, but deliver us from all the influences of sin, from every evil habit, from all the accretions of former sin, all the ore that is mixed with the precious metal, everything that diminishes the brightness of your grace in us; everything that keeps you from taking delight in us, take it away, we beseech you.

If this life is to be to your people the crucible and the burning heat, even to a white heat, so let it be, so long as you sit at the furnace mouth, to watch the ore that nothing should be lost. Oh, blessed God, help any of your children that are in the midst of the heat now. Let them see the Lord sitting near and watching, and let them feel perfectly at ease, because in his hands all things must be well.

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Lord, we desire this morning to contemplate with admiration your ways toward us. You have put some of us into the furnace: There is no child of yours who does not know something of the heat of the furnace; and we perceive that you are a refiner to us, and that the fire is meant to consume our dross and tin; therefore do we thank you for it.

For all the acts of discipline to which we are subject, we would praise the wisdom and the love of our divine Father. You would not have us live in sin; sin is much worse than furnace work. All the trial in the world is not so hard to carry as a sense of sin.

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Behold, none can lay anything to the charge of your people, seeing all was laid on him, upon whom the transgression of your people was laid of old, by your own hand; and now, washed in his precious blood, and clothed in his matchless righteousness, we know that despite our faults, we stand accepted in the Beloved; for which again we bless you.

Deep down in our hearts shall the song begin, in humiliation of spirit because of our offences, but it shall rise to the very heights of heaven, while with exultation we behold how we are “raised up together and made to sit in the heavenly places,” and are presented in Christ Jesus “without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.”

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Lord, will you listen to us while we confess before you how unworthy we have been of all your goodness; for we are a sinful generation, even as our fathers were? We have sinned, times without number; and even those of us who are your people, and have been born into your house, we have even more than others to mourn over our sin; for you have made us more sensible of it, and we have sinned against greater light, which we do sorrowfully confess.

Our sins of pride, of unbelief, of hasty judgment of your providence, our neglect of searching into your mind in the Word, our neglect of possessing your mind in our daily life, our transgressions and our shortcomings, make against us a great list of accusations. But we bless you that they will not stand as accusations; for, behold, none can lay anything to the charge of your people, seeing all was laid on your Son.

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Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Your people desire to set their seal to this, and to acknowledge that you are overflowing goodness. O blessed God, you have remembered both our temporal and our spiritual wants; you have lifted us up from the gates of the grave, delivered our soul from death, our eyes from tears, and our feet from falling.

You have dealt well with your servants, O Lord, according to your Word. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, there is none that deals so bountifully; for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are his thoughts above our thoughts and his ways above our ways. Our soul, therefore, blesses God the Lord, and all that is in us is stirred up his holy name to magnify and bless. “Bless the Lord” is the utterance of our inmost soul this morning; “from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let the Lord’s name be praised.”

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Bless our nation, Lord, we pray. Let the spirit of Christianity permeate it, enter into the high places, and flow down even to its darkest dens. And, we beseech you, let us have peace; may nothing happen to break it, may it be established on a firm and judicious footing; and for many a year may no sound of trumpet, or noise of cannon, be heard throughout the whole earth.

Let the people praise you, O God, and learn war no more! Let all the nations be blessed! May the gospel of Christ Jesus penetrate into the remotest regions, and where it is known, may the power of it be felt far more.

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All the thousand and one things which constitute the activities of our church, do bless and prosper them, so far as they are according to your mind. May it please you, to give to the churches prayer in proportion to activity, and faith in proportion to zeal. O Lord! visit your church at this time, which is a time of peril; and in your mercy, revive among us the love of the pure gospel of Jesus Christ.

Rebuke, we pray, those who, with their philosophy and vain deceit, would mar and spoil the gospel of Jesus Christ. Grant that in all deliberations of any part of your church, which concern this great and grievous and crying evil, there may be decision and wisdom and help given, that all may be done and ordered to your glory.

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