DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Give us more faith. May the prayers that go up before you be salted with faith. When we preach, may we preach in faith; and may all that is done for the brotherhood for Christ, be done in simple confidence in God.
We know, that if we do not believe we shall never be established. We cannot expect to see result from our service, unless it is done in faith; for you have said “According to your faith be it done to you” (Matthew 9:29). O give us the childlike simplicity that never thinks of doubting God; but may we go forward—in all weakness made strong, by the strength of the Mighty God of Jacob.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Then he touched their eyes, saying, ‘Let it be done for you according to your faith.’” (Matthew 9:29)
throws the whole responsibility upon their confidence in him. Again he arouses their faith; and this time he throws the whole responsibility upon their confidence in him. He touched them with his hand; but they must also touch him with their faith.
The word of power in the last sentence is one upon which he acts so continually, that we may call it, as to many blessings, a rule of the kingdom. We have the measuring of our own mercies; our faith obtains less or more according to its own capacity to receive. Had these men been mere pretenders to faith they would have remained blind. If we will not in very truth trust our Lord, we shall die in our sins.
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Today, we prayed that God would increase our faith. And we know that this our only hope. Our faith comes from God himself.
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