Author: Charles Spurgeon

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O Lord, make us a holy and a happy people. Help us to live the separated life, and to tread it with firm and brave step. Help us, while we wrestle not with flesh and blood, to fight with principalities, and powers, and spiritual wickednesses in high places.

May it be ours to be made, by your Spirit, to triumph in every place, being led in triumph by you from strength to strength, from time to time, from age to age, until the history of your whole church shall be one long triumph for the conquering Lord. Glorify yourself in us, we pray, even in these mortal bodies, and in our spirits which are yours.

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May we rejoice in infirmities, because the power of God does rest upon us; and may we glory in tribulations also, because these work in us, by your good Spirit, all manner of holy graces to your glory. The Lord deliver his people from anxious care; and, indeed, from caring about themselves!

Oh, for power to roll our burden upon our God, and to sing all day long because we are the Lord’s, and he is ours. “The Lord is our Shepherd: we shall not want. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our life, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

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Lord, help me to glorify you. I am poor, help me to glorify you by contentment; I am sick, help me to give you honor by patience; I have talents, help me to extol you by spending them for you; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve you; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but yours, and glow with no flame but affection for you; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of you and for you.

You have put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living (Luke 21), so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity into your treasury; I am all yours; take me, and enable me to glorify you now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

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O Spirit of God help our infirmities. If we are pressed down with a load of sorrow; if we are in perplexity and know not what to do; if we are slandered and persecuted; if we in any way are made to feel the weight of the cross, help us, we pray.

Let not our weakness be staggered by that portion of our estate which comes under the head of tribulation. May we rather rejoice in infirmities, because the power of God rests upon us; and may we glory in tribulations also, because these work in us, by your good Spirit, all manner of holy graces to your glory.

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Oh, grant us also to become sons by reason of the spirit of boldness that we shall feel. Give us not again the spirit of bondage that we may fear; but give us, we pray, more and more of the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, Father (Romans 8:15).

Lord, purify us! You have pardoned; now purify, until every sin shall be destroyed within our hearts. We pray, hear the prayers of your children who also ask for strength and succor in their time of need. O Spirit of God help our infirmities

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Lord, give each one of your children power to become the sons of God in their actions. May we become more and more like the Firstborn; may we begin to exercise our sonship by conquering ourselves.

Help us to put down sin. May every sinful thought be driven out, and every thought be brought into captivity to the Spirit of God. Oh help us to be perfectly consecrated to your service, because we are the children of God. May we not live like children of the devil, neither serve him, nor serve our affections and lusts.

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Our Father, we earnestly ask that every believer may feel the power of the sprinkled blood most vividly and consciously. May we hear Jesus say by it, “You are clean, clean everywhere” (cf. John 13:10).

May we have a sense of entire security, because you have said it yourself—“When I see the blood I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). This is the blood of our passover, and no destroying angel can touch us.

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O God, we stand, therefore, now in your immediate presence, and our very heart speaks to you, and we rejoice that you who search the heart, know what our heart would say; and if these lips should fail to speak out the heart’s utterances, you will interpret what is written in every heart.

If no lip this morning should express the desire of certain of your saints, because their groanings are such that they cannot utter them themselves, and, therefore, cannot expect anyone else to do it, yet you will read every heart; for every heart is open before you as a book, and you read the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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We would in spirit now pass into that inner place, into which the High Priest of Israel dared not come but once a year, and then not without blood. We bless you that the veil is torn; and now every believer is made a priest, and permitted to come into the Holy of Holies, and to draw near unto the mercy-seat, all sprinkled with blood, without fear of being regarded as an intruder, or smitten down like Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10).

O God, we stand, therefore, now in your immediate presence, and our very heart speaks to you, and we rejoice that you who search the heart, know what our heart would say.

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Our Father, we do not crouch before you, like slaves before a tyrant, but feel the spirit of adoption, which shall draw us into familiar fellowship with you.

Though still, we approach you with holy trembling, for you are God in heaven, and we are still but men upon the earth, and at the very sight of you we feel a trembling coming over us; yet there is joy with it; and you have taught us to rejoice with trembling (Psalm 2:11).

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