Category: Pray with Spurgeon

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Should any of your servants be in deep trouble, will you grant them grace to glory in tribulation also, because it brings about patience, experience, and hope. And may the Lord grant to all his tried and troubled ones, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

Prosper your universal church. Send the preaching of the pure gospel again to the world. Silence the voices of those that are spreading infidelity and superstition: and may the day come when every pulpit shall resound with the pure gospel of Jesus Christ, and his people shall again return to their allegiance to the faith—the faith once delivered to the saints, never to swerve again.

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O Lamb of God, by whom we have been redeemed from sin and washed from uncleanness, will you graciously daily wash our feet, that we may be clean, and may enter in through the gates into the city, and be among those of whom it is written—“They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.”

And at this hour, which is an hour of grace, we would ask you to help any of your children who are under bondage. If they have lost their hope, if their faith has become weak, if their love burns low—Lord renew the youth of your people, like that of the eagles’; and let them mount up with eagles, and rise above their doubts, their deadness, and their care.

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Especially help us to master our tongue; for if that is bridled the whole body will be manageable. Keep us, O God, when we are in company, and equally preserve us when we are in secret. Help us to keep the door of our lips; and grant that when that door is opened there may not come out of it sweet water and bitter: may we not both bless and curse, but may we speak that which is good to edification, and may our speech be also seasoned with salt.

Thus would we cry to you after holiness. You know that we do not expect to be saved by it; but we do look upon it as salvation, to be saved from sin, to be delivered from corruption; to be emancipated from the bondage of the evil is the great thought of our spirit, and we look forward to heaven with this as one of its highest felicities, that we shall be without fault before the throne of God, and that nothing that defiles shall ever enter there.

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O God, help us to live towards you in all devotion, confidence, obedience, resignation, and simple childlike trust. Help us to love you with all our heart, and soul, and mind.

Enable us also to live to our fellow men according to your word, loving our neighbor as ourselves. Save us from all unneighborly tempers, all hard thoughts, all slanderous words. Deliver us from bearing any anger in our heart: save us from everything that is ungenerous or unkind, and let the law of love be written on the fleshy tablets of our renewed heart, and be carried out in all the thoughts and words and acts of our lives.

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We bless you this morning that we can pray in this fashion, for there was a time when it never struck us that there was much amiss with us, when sin was no plague to us; when we lived even in outward sin with but slight accusation of conscience, and certainly without any pain at heart.

You know, Lord, that sin is our greatest curse; we would sooner suffer anything than sin, at least when we are in our right mind we feel so. O God, deliver us from sin! At the very thought of its coming near to us we cry, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me;” and we only find comfort in the blessed truth that you give us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let that victory be very apparent, may it be very clear to our own consciousness, very much displayed in our lives.

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We must sorrowfully lament our hearts, how they wander. If you give us a blessing we begin to idolize it. How often do we set our hearts upon children, upon some beloved object, or upon wealth, or upon honor. Somehow or other, this spiritual adultery too often comes upon us, and the chastity of our hearts towards our God is violated. Be pleased to forgive us in this thing also.

“Take this poor heart and let it be, For ever closed to all but Thee”—a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Let the whole heart be Christ’s alone, and never stray again.

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We are tempted to envy others, because they excel us, and we mourn to confess the meanness of our spirit in this matter. Also we have to lament our pride. We have nothing to be proud of; the lowest place is ours; but Lord, we often conceive ourselves to be something when we are nothing. We ask you to forgive all these vices of our nature; but at the same time kill them, for we hate ourselves to think we should fall into such evils.

Especially have mercy upon us for our unbelief. You have given us proof of your existence, and of your love to us, and of your care over us: especially by giving us your only begotten Son, the best pledge of love. And yet we acknowledge that we do doubt. Unbelief comes into the soul. We are quite ashamed of this. We could lie in the very dust to think it should be so. Lord, have mercy upon us; but also help us to be strong in faith in the future, giving glory to God.

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O God, deliver us from the invasion of sin, as well as from the dominion of it. Grant us to walk as Christ walked; in his newness of life may we live—may the life in the flesh be a life of faith upon the Son of God who loved us, and gave himself for us; and may it be a life of love, and consecration of burning zeal for God; a life of pure holiness; such a life as the incarnate God Himself has lived among the sons of men.

We lament that in the body of this death there is much that we abhor. We are tempted to indolence at times, and though busy in the world we become spiritually idle.

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Our Father, for that is the sweetest title by which we can address you, we ask that you save us entirely from sin. There are many in your presence who are resting in the peace which comes of justification by faith. We know that we are righteous through the righteousness of another, even Jesus Christ; but we pant and pine for personal likeness to yourself.

If you are our Father, then upon every child of your’s should be the Father’s image impressed: so let it be. We beseech you, Lord, to enable us to recognize our death to sin; and when it tempts us may we be deaf to the voice of the charmer with the deafness of death; and when it would use our members as instruments of unrighteousness, may we be quite incapable thereof with the incapacity of death.

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Glorious Lord God, our inmost hearts worship you; for you are high above the heavens, and yet you humbled yourself to behold the things that are in heaven and that are on earth. And in your condescension you have regard for the very lowest of mankind.

Many of us can sing “he has regarded my low estate,” for you do raise the poor out of the dust, and the needy out of the dunghill, that you may set them among princes, even the princes of the people. Who is a God like you? Hallelujah! Our praises shall never cease: from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same and all through the night watches, the Lord’s name is to be praised.

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