Category: Pray with Spurgeon

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Be pleased to grant to your churches more power over the sons of men. Oh, Lord, make your ministers throughout all the world more fruitful in soul winning. Let us not rest without sowing the good seed beside all waters. Forgive us our coldness and indifference; forgive us that we sleep as do others, for it is high time for us to awake out of sleep.

Oh, Lord, help us to live while we live; shake us clear of these these grave clothes which cling to us; say to us, most blessed Jesus, what you said concerning Lazarus of old, “Loose him, and let him go.” May we get right away from the old death and the old lethargy, and live under the best conditions of life, diligently serving God.

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We do feel that we have so much superficial religion, so much profession without true possession to back it up. Oh, Lord, may our churches be built with precious stones, and not with wood, hay, and stubble.

May we ourselves so know the gospel that no one can beat us out of it; may we so hold it, that our faces shall be like flints against the errors of the age; so practice it, that our lives shall be an argument that none can answer, for the power of the gospel of Jesus.

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Oh let no brother or sister become distinguished in grace and then decline, let none bear fruit and afterwards become barren; but may our path “shine more and more unto the perfect day.” It is this our spirit craves after, with strong desire, that the whole of our life, from the commencement with Christ to its ending with our being with Christ, may glorify and bring help to his church.

And now, hear us again while we cry unto you. Our chief desire is for your cause in the earth. We are often very heavy about it. The days seem to us to be neither dark nor light, but mingled; oh that the element of light might overcome the darkness! We do pray, raise up in these days a race of men that shall know the gospel and hold it fast

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Until life’s latest hour may we keep the sacred pledges of our early youth. We do remember when we were baptized into the sacred Name—Oh, never may we dishonor that sacred ordinance by which we declared that we were dead to the world and buried with Christ. Some of us do remember our early covenant with God, when we made over to him ourselves and all that we had. Oh, in life’s last hour when we bow ourselves for weakness, may it be to bless that sacred bond and to “enter into the joy of our Lord.”

And if you have taught us anything since then, if you have given us any virtue or any praise, may we hear you say, “Hold fast that what you have, that no man take your crown.”

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Holiness of life we crave after. Grant that our speech, our thoughts, our actions, may all be holiness, and “holiness unto the Lord.” We know that there be some that seek after moral virtue apart from God. Let us not be of their kind; but may our desire be that everything should be done as unto the Lord, for you have said, “Walk before me, and be perfect.” Help us so to do, to have no master but our God, no law but his will, no delight but himself.

Oh, take these hearts, most glorious Lord, and keep them, for “out of them are the issues of life;” and let us be the instruments in your hand, by daily vigilance, of keeping our hearts, lest in heart we go astray from the Lord our God.

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O Lord Jesus, deepen in us our knowledge of you. You have made the first lines of your likeness upon our character; go on with this work of sacred art, until we are like you in all respects. We wish that we had greater power in private prayer, that we were more often wrestling with the covenant angel.

We would that the Word of God were more sweet to us, more intensely precious—that we had a deeper hunger and thirst after it. Oh, that our knowledge of the truth were more clear, and our grip of it more steadfast. Teach us, O Lord, to know the reason of the hope that is in us, and to be able to defend the faith against all comers. Plough deep in us, great Lord; and let the roots of your grace strike into the roots of our being, until it shall be no longer I that live, but “Christ that lives in me.”

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We have faith in Jesus, blessed be your name, but Oh strengthen and deepen that faith! May he be all in all to us; may we never look elsewhere for ground of rest, but abide in him with an unwavering, immutable confidence, that the Christ of God cannot fail nor be discouraged, but must forever be the salvation of his people.

We trust we can say also that we love the Lord, but Oh that we loved him more! Let this blessed flame feed on the very marrow of our bones. May the zeal of your house consume us; may we feel that we love the Lord with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, with all our strength; and hence may there be about our life a special consecration, an immoveable dedication unto the Lord alone.

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We bear our willing witness to the testimony of the Lord, we set our seal that “He is true” and we cry again, “Bind the sacrifice with cords, even with cords unto the horns of the altar.” From henceforth let no man trouble us, for we “bear in our body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” We are his branded servants, henceforth and forever. Our ear is nailed to our Master’s doorpost, to never leave again.

And now, Lord, we beseech you, hear the voice of our cry. Your people would first of all ask you to deepen in us all the good works of your grace. We do repent of sin—give us a deeper repentance! May we have a horror of it, may we dread the very approach of it, may we chastely flee from it and resolve, with sacred jealousy, that our hearts shall be for the Lord alone.

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We would this morning “take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.” We would “pay our vows unto the Lord now, in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of all his people.”

Blessed be the name of the Lord, we have been brought low, but the Lord has helped us; we have oftentimes wandered, but he has restored us; we have been tried, but he has preserved us; yea, we have found his paths to be “paths of pleasantness” and all the ways of his wisdom to be “ways of peace.”

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You have borne and carried us these years in the wilderness with unchanging love and goodness. You have made us and you carry us. You do not forsake the work of your own hands. “Your mercy endures forever,” and let your praise endure forever also.

O Lord, we would cling to you more firmly than ever we have done: we would say, “Return unto your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.”

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