Author: Charles Spurgeon

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Gracious Master, we wish to conquer self in every respect; we desire to live for the glory of God and the good of our fellow men. We would have it true of us as of our Master, “He saved others, himself he cannot save.”

Will you enable us, especially, to overcome the body with all its affections and lusts; may the flesh be kept under; let no appetite of any kind, of the grosser sort, prevail against our manhood, lest we be dishonored and unclean. And let not, even, the most refined power of the natural mind, be permitted to come so forward, as to mar the dominion of the Spirit of God within us.

Amen.

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We ask this morning that we may be washed as to our feet: we trust you have bathed us once for all in the sin-removing fountain. You have also washed us in the waters of regeneration, and given us the renewing of our minds through Jesus Christ. But oh, for daily cleansing!

Do you see any fault in us?—oh, we know that you do—wash us that we may be clean. Are we deficient in any virtue? Oh, supply it, that we may exhibit a perfect character, to the glory of him who has made us new in Christ Jesus. Or, is there something that would be good, carried to excess? Be pleased to modify it, lest one virtue should slaughter another, and we should not be the image of Christ completely. Oh Lord and Master, you who washed your disciples’ feet of old, still be very patient toward us, very condescending towards our provoking faults, and go on with us, we pray, until your great work shall be completed, and we shall be brethren of the firstborn.

Amen.

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Let not the church suffer dishonor at any time; but may her garments be always white. Let not such as come in among her, that are not of her, utterly despoil her. Oh Christ, as you groaned concerning Judas, so may your children cry to you concerning any that have fallen aside into crooked ways, lest the cause of Christ in the earth should be dishonored.

Oh God, we beseech you, cover with your feathers all the people of Christ; and keep your church, even until he shall come who, having loved his own that were in the world, loved them even to the end.

Amen.

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We cry to you this morning, for the preservation of your church in the world, and especially for her purity. Oh Father, keep us, we beseech you, with all keeping, that the Evil One will not touch us. We shall be tempted, but let him not prevail against us. In a thousand ways he will lay snares for our feet, but, oh, deliver us as a bird from the snare of the fowler. May the snare be broken that we may escape.

“I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” (John 10:9–10, CSB)

Amen.

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Christ has redeemed us with blood, our hearts he has won and holds, and we are his own, though we are in the world. Holy Father, keep your people we beseech you, for Jesus’ sake: though they are in the world let them not be of it; but may there be a marked distinction between them and the rest of mankind.

Even as their Lord was “holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners,” so may it be with believers in Christ. May they follow him; and may they not know the voice of strangers, but come out from the rest, that they may follow him without the camp.

Amen.

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O Jehovah, our God, you love your people! You have placed all the saints in the hand of Jesus; and you have given Jesus to be to them a Leader, a Commander, and a Husband. We know that you delight to hear us cry on the behalf of you church; for you care for Jesus, and you are ready to grant to him according to the covenant provisions which you have laid up in store for Christ Jesus. 

Therefore would we begin this morning’s prayer, by entreating you to behold and visit the vine, and the vineyard which your right hand has planted. Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities; look upon those whom you have chosen from before the foundation of the world, whom Christ has redeemed with blood, whose hearts he has won and holds, and who are his own, though they be in the world.

Amen.

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We believe the world will be brought in, when the church believes her God: the Kingdom will come, and the glory shall be made visible to all flesh, when once we have the confidence we ought to have in him, who is worthy to be praised, and to be trusted evermore.

And now, by the precious blood of Jesus, accept this feeble prayer of ours, and send down a shower of benedictions; and to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

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Give a blessing this morning, we pray, to us all; may we make a distinct advance in the divine life; may we get to a higher platform.

May we leave the mists of doubt and fear below us in the valley, and quit the marshes of the plain, and climb the glittering hilltops of eternal security in Christ and blessed oneness with him, by simply believing him who cannot lie—who has sworn by two immutable things, and cannot from his purpose turn nor from his word draw back. O God, grant this faith to the entire church.

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God, bless my beloved church! Give to it more faith: may the prayers that go up before you be salted with faith: when we preach, may we preach in faith; and may all that is done of the brotherhood for Christ, be done in simple confidence in God.

We know, that if we do not believe, we shall never be established. We cannot expect to see result from our service, unless it is done in faith; for you have said “Let it be done for you according to your faith” (Matthew 9:29). O give the members of this church the childlike simplicity that never thinks of doubting God; but may we go forward—in all weakness made strong, by the strength of the Mighty God of Jacob.

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O Lord, we beseech you, save our unconverted friends and neighbors from this gall of bitterness, this horrible yoke of iniquity, which consists in disbelieving God and his Christ.

And, then, deliver any of your children that have backslidden, and have gotten into a state of misbelief. May they be brought back; may they come with weeping and lamentation, and again trust the ever-blessed Father; and may our confidence become strong, that our peace may be like a river, and our righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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