Category: Pray with Spurgeon

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Lord God, we wonder you did ever have any mercy on us at all; for in justice and judgment, if we were set upon the Throne, we could do no other than condemn ourselves, for there is no plea against your justice that can be found within our lives or nature.

Yet, Lord, we thank you that you have saved many of us, and we would this morning exult in that salvation, and pray that all of those who we will interact with today will be saved also!

“LORD, if you kept an account of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?” (Psalm 130:3)

Amen.

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As we marked the leaves falling from the trees, “We are altogether as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.” “We all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” As the wind strips the leaves from the trees and leaves them bare, so we stand before you this morning. We have not by nature one green shoot, or anything like fruit: we are unprofitable altogether, and only fit to be “hewn down and cast into the fire:” for what fruit we have born, if it has been the fruit of our nature, has been more the fruit of thorns and thistles, than of figs and grapes.

“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Romans 7:24–25)

Amen.

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We lie humbly before you, confessing our sin, our frequent sin, our willful sin; our sin against light and knowledge; sins of heart and thought, sins of word, and sins of action. There is no power of body, or of the will, which has not been defiled with sin; and we confess this before you with much shame.

So great has been the stream, that we are sure there must be a deep and large fount of pollution within our nature; and you have made some of us to know that it is so. You have taken us into the chambers of imagery, that are within our spirit, and we have dug through the wall, and have gone from one chamber to another; and the deeper we search, the more we are shocked; and the further we have pryed into the secrets of our being, the more are we utterly ashamed that we should be such creatures as we are by nature.

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.

Amen.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.