Pray with Spurgeon: Help me to pray

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Help your servant now to pray for all this people, and may there be a voice in our prayer for every man’s want before you. At the same time, help all this company to be instant in prayer; and may there not be a prayerless heart in our entire church, but may every man, and every woman too, come with his own request and burden, and may it be done unto him according to your grace.

“Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18)

Amen.

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Pray with Spurgeon: We come to God with nothing of our own

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O Lord, how shall we speak with you, for we are dust and ashes! May your Spirit speak in us, that we may speak unto your Spirit. And how shall we draw near to you, for we have no merits? Let the merits of Jesus stand for us, that we may acceptably approach our God, being “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6).

Lord, we are full of infirmities, and full of wants, and full of sin; and we come and cast ourselves at your feet. Being nothing, we would ask to receive everything of you; and being altogether undeserving, we would look to your loving-kindness and tender mercy, and expect much from that divine source, through Jesus Christ your Son.

Amen.

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Pray with Spurgeon: A prayer for children, families, and teachers

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We offer special prayers this morning for the rising generation. The Lord bless those who teach children. Teach the teachers, bless and superintend the superintendents; and let our churches and homes be more than ever, a place where the lambs are cared for and tended, that they may grow up as sheep of the fold of Jesus.

Many prayers have been offered already today for this end: we pray that you would hear them all, and let the richest blessings of heaven rest on those devoted men and women, who deny themselves many privileges that they may have the greater privilege of feeding the lambs of Christ. The Lord hear us, and do for us, exceeding abundantly above what we ask, or even think, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: God, send your grace to the nations

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God be gracious to this land. Send us the Holy Spirit more abundantly than ever; and may there be myriads born to Christ in these latter days. Do this in all the nations, until all lands shall bow before you, and all generations shall call you blessed.

“Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.” (Psalm 96:3–4)

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: A Good God in Hard Times

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Give us then a great increase to our church. We ask this blessing for all churches and for all ministers of the gospel of Jesus. We ask for a revival of true godliness all over the world.

We pray, grant that these disastrous times may drive your children nearer to you; may deliver many of them from a worldly spirit; and may it come to pass that, while they grow poor one way, they may grow rich in another, by the sanctification of their losses and afflictions.

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: May Christ be lifted up

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We ask that this week, while Jesus Christ is lifted up in our speech, many may look unto him and be saved. You have promised to hear your people’s prayer, and this is a prayer that must be according to your mind; and it is for the honor of your dear Son; and it is put up in faith, put up in faith in Jesus; therefore you cannot run back from it, but you must keep that word to which in humble, but adoring faith, we hold you—“My word shall not return unto me void.” Give us then a great increase to the church, by the preaching of the gospel this week.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16, CSB)

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: May Christ be lifted up

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There are many who are now joining us, great God, in this prayer, that we may have many conversions this week. We mean to look, and wait, and watch for it. We ask that this week, while Jesus Christ is lifted up in our speech, many may look unto him and be cured of the serpent’s bite forever. You have promised to hear your people’s prayer.

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” (John 3:14–15, CSB)

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: A Prayer for Non-Christians

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Oh, look in great mercy upon those we know who never have believed in Jesus. O Strong Son of God, Immortal Love—whom, though we have not seen your face, we do believe in, and rely upon—ride forth this morning with your arrows dipped in your own blood, and shoot them out among non-Christians, that the people may fall under them, wounded with the sense of sin, smitten even to self-despair with a consciousness of guilt: and oh, that they might get healing from the hands that wound them, may they get life from the hand that kills their hope.

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: A Prayer for Suffering Christians

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There may be some here that are so tossed about mentally, that are so dismayed with inward temptation, so out of their wits by the assaults of Satan, that they know not what to do.

The Lord help his servants, when they are in extremity, to feel that now is the time for God to begin; and when they are driven over the very verge of hope, and the precipice of despair is before them, oh grant them grace to fall into the arms of Jesus, and there shall they find life from the dead.

Amen.

Pray with Spurgeon: Restored like prodigal children

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Let those who have sinned weep bitterly, but let them come to the Master again. Oh, let the most wandering, cry to you; and may they look to your holy temple; and as they look, let the eternal life stream into them again, by the energy of the Eternal Spirit; and may they feel that whatever may have been the past, they are restored like prodigal children to a feast of love, restored forever to the Father’s house.

There may be some here that are so tossed about mentally, that are so dismayed with inward temptation, so out of their wits by the assaults of Satan, that they know not what to do. Lord when they have no wit, give them wit enough to trust Christ; and when they can do nothing else, may they faint away upon the bosom of eternal love.

Amen.