Author: Charles Spurgeon

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DAILY PRAYER
May we in everything be Christlike and godly; for God is love (1 John 4:8). Conquer our tempers; subdue our passions; rule us in body, soul, and spirit. Make us so to live that, when death shall close our life on earth, heaven itself shall be but a continuance of the same life, because even now we have the beginnings of heaven in the earnest of the Spirit.

VERSE OF THE DAY
“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8)

He may be very orthodox, but if he does not love, he does not know God; and if he does not know God, what does he know? There is such a thing as holding the truth in bitterness; but those who know God, and are truly his children, hold the truth in love.

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DAILY PRAYER
As you have commanded us to pray for all men (1 Timothy 2:1–4), so do we now especially pray for our beloved country. May every blessing rest upon our country. Upon our leaders, let your mercies always descend.

Keep this land in peace we beseech you; and as for all other lands, may peace yet reign. May oppression in every place be broken to small pieces, and may truth and righteousness win the day.
Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY
“Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good. ” (1 Peter 2:13–14)

You are not to be disturbers of the peace; you Christian people are to cultivate the spirit of reconciliation wherever you dwell, submitting yourselves, “for the Lord’s sake,” even to some things which you do not like.

In Peter’s day, the king was a poor creature, and something worse than that. Indeed, I might say of the bulk of the Emperors of Rome, who were the chief “kings” of that day, that they were monsters of iniquity; yet the office was to be respected even when the man who occupied it could not be; much more should it be respected when the occupant is what a true “king” should be.

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DAILY PRAYER Will you keep your people right with regard to the world? Oh, that the witness that we bear might be an unstained one. Oh, grant to us to be a light in the world, that we may never cast darkness instead of light over the minds of men. Help us to live out Christ’s life. Oh Lord, help us to be so consumed with zeal, that it may eat us up; and may we be so full of love, that those who are around us may know, that if we write a harsh letter, or say a strong word, love alone dictates it. Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY “But I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.” (John 10:16)“Them also I must bring,” “I must,” says Jesus; and, as men say, “must is for the king.” There is a divine necessity laid upon Christ our Savior, he must save the people, the sheep whom his Father gave him: “them also I must bring.” Oh, wondrous love, that holds even the Omnipotent Savior in bonds, and puts him under the sacred constraint of this mighty “must”: “them also I must bring.”

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If we are right with you, help us to be right in all the transactions of daily life. Help us to be right with regard to your providential dealings with us.

Lord, give much patience to those that are tried. Give a holy resolve both to the sick and to the bereaved, and to such as are brought into poverty. Be very gracious to your dear children, that they may never dishonor you when they are in affliction.

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Lord, you have not taken away your blessing from us. We do rejoice in this: every day you aid us, and this month you have sent us perhaps more than ever—glory be to your name!

You provide for all the work of the church, and send prosperity to it in every part and quarter of it; and therefore we fear and tremble, because of all the goodness which you make to pass before us; and our heart is jealous with a godly jealousy, lest in anything we should vex the Spirit of God. Oh Lord, grant us to be holy, grant us to be accepted in the Beloved, and you shall have all the praise.

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If you have prospered any among us so that we have grown rich, and have forgotten the God who gave us everything; or if you have brought any into poverty, and in our poverty we have not acted as we should; or if you have left any brother to his own heart, and he has found out that he is a fool; if any of us have grieved you; oh, lay not this sin to the charge of your church, and lay it not to the charge of the offender either, but let a sweet forgiveness be bestowed, let a restoration be granted by your Spirit, and let the church be right with God. Oh, how we pray for this!

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Lord, bless our church and let nothing spring up in this church that would grieve your Holy Spirit. We know that there are some among us that do not walk after your commandments, some that grow cold, some that are negligent in prayer, some that add nothing to the strength of your service.

Oh, will you continue to look upon the faithful, and to make them yet more faithful; and to look upon the wandering, and the backsliding, and to restore them, lest they be an occasion of grief unto your Israel, as Achan was who had hidden away the goodly Babylonish garment, and the wedge of gold in his tent.

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Father, cleanse us from secret faults. Purge us! You have purged us with hyssop once, and we are clean; now wash us with water, even as you, blessed Jesus, did wash your disciples’ feet, and make us clean everywhere, that we may be your priests and kings, sanctified wholly; and make us a people zealous of good works.

“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.” (Psalm 51:7–8)

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Oh we desire perfection. We know what it is to make a conscience of our every thought. We have looked upon every act of our lives, and desired that in all things we might be conformed to your will.

You know that this makes us walk very tenderly at times, and with much brokenness of spirit before you, because the more we look into our lives, the more we see to lament; and in proportion as you make us holy, in that very proportion do we spy out our unholiness, and find nests of sin where we never dreamt that the loathsome things had been.

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Lord, many of us have been forgiven, years ago. We have walked with you now, with holy joy and confidence, some of us for a quarter of a century, and others for more; yet Lord there may be something between us and you even now, and if there be, “Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me” (Job 10:2).

If you see in your servants any wrong thing encouraged, any evil desire cherished; if there is anything that we delight in that you do not delight in; if we have any habit which grieves you; if in anything we vex your Holy Spirit—our Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us; and then point out to us the trespass, and teach our feet to keep the ways of your commandments, and to trespass no more; for our heart is right towards your statutes and we desire holiness.

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