DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We cry to you this morning, for the preservation of your church in the world, and especially for her purity. Oh Father, keep us, we ask you, with all keeping, that the Evil One touch us not. We shall be tempted, but let him not prevail against us. In a thousand ways he will lay snares for our feet, but, oh, deliver us as a bird from the snare of the fowler. May the snare be broken that we may escape.
Let the church not suffer dishonor at any time; but may her garments be always white. Let no-one come in among her, that are not of her, utterly despoil her. Oh Christ, as you did groan concerning Judas, so may your children cry to you concerning any that have fallen aside into crooked ways, lest the cause of Christ in the earth should be dishonored.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (Matthew 6:13)
After a man is converted and has received forgiveness of sins, soon he will be tempted by the devil, for Satan cannot bear to lose his subjects. And when Satan sees someone cross the border and escape out of his hand, he gathers up all his forces and exercises all his cunning that he may slay him at once.
To meet this special assault, the Lord makes the heart watchful. This is thus a prayer of watchfulness, which is necessary from the commencement of the Christian life even to its close. There is no hour in which a believer can afford to slumber. And in addition to watchfulness, a believer must never deliberately enter temptation. Anyone who does so is a liar before God.
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