Author: Charles Spurgeon

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We do thank you that Jesus gives us the victory; but we long to have that victory in ourselves more constantly realised—more perfectly enjoyed. We would lie in the very dust before you because of sin; and yet, at the same time, rejoice in the great Sin-bearer, that the sin is not imputed to us, that it is put away by his precious blood, that we are accepted in the Beloved.

But even this does not content us; we are crying after the work of the Holy Ghost within, until Satan shall be bruised under our feet and sin shall be utterly destroyed.

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You know, Lord, for you search our hearts—you know we can truly say, unless indeed we be under a very deep delusion, that we do wish to promote your glory among the sons of men; and that we count nothing to be riches, but that which makes us rich towards God; nothing to be health, but that which is sanity before the most High—holiness in you sight; and we reckon nothing to be pure, but what you have cleansed; and nothing to be good, but that upon which you blessing rests.

Yet Lord, though it be so, though our mind has been, by your Spirit, set towards holiness, there is a death within us; the old nature which strives against our life, and the members of the body, often join with the corrupt nature within, to lead us astray. We swing towards holiness, and then we seem like the pendulum, to swing the other way. We are wretched, because of this, and we cry out to you to deliver us. Oh that you would deliver us!

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We would come to you this morning by the way which you have appointed; and enabled by the Spirit whom you have given, we would speak with you. Father, we are always grieving that we have offended your holy mind; and we grieve ourselves, to think that we should grieve you.

Our innermost desire is to be absolutely perfect. Oh, how we wish we were! We hate every false way, and every sin; and we desire, with all the power of our mind, to be delivered from the dominion of any sin, and to be led into the blessed freedom of complete obedience to God.

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Our Father, we dare call you by that blessed name, for we feel the spirit of children. We have an earnest love for you, and an implicit trust in you; and we desire in all things to be obedient to you will, and to seek your honor.

All of our dependence is placed on you, since the day when you taught us to believe in Jesus Christ: and now, you are all in all to us, you are our fullness, and we lose ourselves and find ourselves completely in you.

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We cast ourselves upon you, and ask you to make us all useful today in our families, in our classes, in the church, in the world: and when you shall have used us here, permit us the great joy of serving you day and night in your temple above.

One more prayer: it is, convert those who sit with us from Sunday to Sunday and are unconverted. Lord have mercy upon some that once professed religion, but continue to come in and out among us without repentance, without turning back to him whom once they professed to know.

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The Lord bless us this day. Help us to be voices for God. Make this church to be full of such voices. May there be no silent member among us concerning the things of Christ; but may each one overcome through the blood of the Lamb and the word of his testimony (Revelation 12:11).

O God, will you bless the various ministries carried on by us, that we may, as a church, help and do our part in the evangelization of the world. We remember the many men who have been trained at our side for ministry, and are preaching now: the Lord speak through them.

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Lord remember our great city: Oh, be not very angry with it. Behold this day the gospel is preached, but the many turn their backs upon it. They might hear it, and they will not, and many that do hear it, reject it.

The Lord raise up many voices yet that will be heard, that must be heard; and open men’s ears; compel them to hear; yes, compel them to come into your marriage banquet, that your Son may have guests at his great feast of mercy.

The Lord bless us this day. Help us to be voices for God.

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Sometimes we feel half staggered when praying for other nations, because our own dear land, and other lands where Christ is preached, are still so dark. Lord, look on countries where the gospel is proclaimed, and yet men live in sin, and the policy of many a state is unchristian, if not anti-Christian.

Oh, look on the nations; gather out the remnant of the woman’s seed, even from among them; and let the light of your chosen ones shine forth, that it may be seen that your saints are not only lights to themselves but lights of the world, lights of the nations wherein they dwell.

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It is long since then with some of us, but all the way has been strewn with mercies, and we desire this morning to record, “Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits” (Psalm 103:2). We thank you now in the retrospect for the trials which we have endured. Some of us have been brought very low with physical pain and mental weariness, and others have been sore smitten with bereavement, losses and crosses, and persecutions, but there is not one out of all our trials which we could have afforded to have been without.

No, Lord, all has been ordered well, there was a need be for every twig of the rod, and we desire now to thank you that we can see in looking back, how all things have even now worked together for good, though we know we cannot see the end as yet.

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O Lord, if it may please you, look upon any of your servants who are more than ordinarily tried, or who by reason of bodily weakness or the stress of severe trial, may specially need consolation; put them under the everlasting arms. So let the whole host be refreshed.

Let those that lie in hospital, be brought out of it and made whole; and as it is said of the host when you did bring your people out of Egypt, “there was not one feeble person in all their tribes,” so may it be with us; may the weakest become as David, and David as the Angel of the Lord. Great Captain of the host, we ask this high favor of you on this day. Deny us not we beseech you.

Amen.

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