DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
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.
The Lord be pleased to be gracious unto 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.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)
All good from God, all evil from ourselves. There is variableness and there is the shadow of turning in the sun, but in that greater Father of lights there is neither parallax nor tropic; he is evermore the same, and we may go to him with unwavering confidence because he is the same. Oh, what a blessing to such changing creatures as we are to have an unchanging God!
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One thing many people don’t know about Spurgeon is that he started preaching when he was only 17-years-old, about a year after his conversion. Four years later, he would become the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London and his sermons began to be regularly published.
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Up until a few years ago, these sermons were completely unavailable for reading anywhere. But now, a new series of books is making the outlines and manuscripts of these sermons available for our enjoyment and edification: The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon.
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