DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh bring home your prodigal children, and let such as are coming home be met by the loving Father; and may such as have come home have a feast of fat things today. May elder brethren today be made better tempered, be made more in sympathy with the great Father!
May there be blessings all round today for all of us, and so may we together bless and magnify your amazing and sacred name. O one God of Israel, whom we worship, let others worship whom they may; the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob is our God forever and ever, and we worship you, Oh Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ your only-begotten Son
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to him. When he came closer, he asked him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘I want to see.’” (Genesis 1:1)
It is a great thing to know what you really do want. There are some persons who are so blind that they do not know that they are blind; and because they say, “We see,” therefore is their blindness the more intense. I fear that there is many a person who professes to pray, yet who, if Christ should come into the room, and say, “What do you want me to do for you?” would not know how to answer the question. This man did; and he said, very briefly, and very clearly, but in a very full way, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.”
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