Pray with Spurgeon: Casting our Crowns at Christ’s Feet

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But, O Lord, we worship with all our heart, and adore the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and Oh, most blessed Lamb of God, with all the saints before the throne, we pay you reverence—casting all that we have before you.

Crowns we have none, not even of silver and gold, but only what you have graciously given, we would willingly lay at your feet, content to feel that everything is ours when it is yours, and the more ours, when we have yielded it up to you. We wish we could live for Jesus wholly, that there were no distractions, no secondary channels into which the stream of life could flow, but that as he is all to us, so all of us might be unto him alone.

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Pray with Spurgeon: Glorifying Christ with God

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Oh how we joy in Christ and you joy in him too. We long to glorify him, and you delight to glorify your Son. We would set him on high, and you have set him “far above all principalities and powers, and every name that is named.”

Now this day, we pray, “behold our shield and look upon the face of your Anointed;” and while we shelter behind him as a shield, let him stand for us, and let the glory of God shine in the face of Jesus Christ, that you may be precious to us unworthy ones.

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Pray with Spurgeon: God draws near in Christ

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Blessed God, Father, Son, and Spirit, our whole spirit would reverence you; yet would we have such knowledge of your goodness, that we might not be overawed with your greatness; such a sense of your nearness in the person of Jesus Christ, the Man, the Branch, that we might not be driven away with terror, but may be drawn near with filial love and holy boldness.

Lord, there was once a great gulf between us, but you have bridged that gulf; for now the Lord Jesus Christ is brother to our souls, yet is he Son of the Highest; truly man, yet truly God, he is the Interpreter, one of a thousand, the Daysman, who this day lays his hand upon us.

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Pray with Spurgeon: Let us forget the world

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Glorious God, it is the flower of our being to worship you: this is the crown and glory of life, to adore and worship the life-giver from whom all good things come.

Worship has often been to us as a bath in heavenly pleasure, and we have come out of it refreshed and comforted, blessed, and filled with heavenly delight. Oh for the Holy Spirit’s power to help us in worship now! Breathe upon us, oh Divine Spirit, and let that breath cause us to forget the world, but bring us into the fullest life in the contemplation of God and heaven.

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Pray with Spurgeon: May we trust you in the darkest hour

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We put up special prayer for any of our dear friends who are in trouble, asking you to help some who have been suffering bitter bereavement, others who are vexed with sickness in their own persons. The Lord be pleased to be gracious to all who trust him, and to make them trust him in the darkest hour. And now, unto the Father, the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, Israel’s one God, be glory throughout all the world.

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Pray with Spurgeon: Preserve our nation

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God bless our country! May faith be multiplied in the land! Preserve our nation at this juncture. Guide, we pray, the deliberations of all leaders. May peace be preserved, and at the same time may the great purposes of God with regard to the spread of liberty and of the gospel be subserved by every decree of the council.

O God, we beseech you, ease the world of the sway of every evil principle. Let the day come, when all classes of men shall study the interest of others as well as their own, when the various nations shall yield to the one scepter of Christ and, like kindred tribes, shall melt into one. Yes, hasten his coming and his reign when the shout shall go up to heaven, that the “Lord God omnipotent reigns.”

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Pray with Spurgeon: May they come to God by Christ

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Oh God, be revealed, wherever congregations are met together, that men may come to you and live. Oh that the people that we will speak to this week, might not one of them go away unbelievers. If they have been indifferent to these things, and have never studied the ground of the believer’s confidence, may they see it clearly this week, and accept of it as the rock on which they shall build.

Oh, if there be in this audience, as we fear there must be, many that are living to trust in their wealth, or their talents, or their position in life; or who are trusting in nothing, but raising their building without a foundation at all; Oh, bring them this day to see, that there is nothing worthy of an immortal soul’s confidence except the immortal and everliving God, and may they come by Christ Jesus unto the Father. May many a heart end all its weary wanderings, and sit still at Christ’s feet, and see the salvation of God.

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Pray with Spurgeon: Relying on God, our happiness

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O God, we can trust you, and we do. Our faith has gathered strength by the lapse of years. Each following birthday, we trust, confirms us in the fact that to rely upon God is our happiness and our strength.

We will rely on you, though the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. We will not fear, since God abides fast forever, and his covenant cannot fail. And now today, will you lead others to trust you.

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Pray with Spurgeon: God will sustain us

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If you have appointed grey hairs for us, and a long and weary time of the taking down of the tabernacle; only grant us grace that, by infirmity, our faith may never fail us; but when the windows are darkened, may we still look out to see the hope that is to be revealed; and when the grasshopper becomes a burden, still let our strength be as our days, even to the last day.

We now commit ourselves again to your keeping, O faithful Creator; to your keeping, O Savior of the pierced hand; to you keeping, O eternal Spirit, who is able to keep us from falling, and to sanctify us wholly that we may be made to stand among the saints in light.

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Pray with Spurgeon: Trials Appointed by God

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It may be you have appointed for us great torrents of tribulation, but you will be with us if we pass through the river. Perhaps you will permit us to go through blazing fires of persecution or temptation, but we shall not be burned; for you have assured us it shall be so, that we shall go through the fires unhurt, since you will be with us.

Perhaps, it is written in the tablets of your eternal purpose, that we shall soon end this mortal life and die. Well, be it so, we shall the sooner see your face, the sooner drink eternal deeps of bliss.

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