DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We ask for a revival of true godliness all over the world. We pray, grant that these disastrous times may drive your children nearer to you; may deliver many of them from a worldly spirit; and may it come to pass that, while they grow poor one way, they may grow rich in another, by the sanctification of their losses and afflictions.
God be gracious to this land. Send us, we pray, the Holy Spirit more abundantly than ever; and may there be myriads born to Christ in these latter days. So do with all the nations, until all lands shall bow before you, and all generations shall call you blessed.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“So you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel, has glorified you.” (Isaiah 55:5)
What joy this gives to you who love him! The Lord has glorified his Son, and given to him the power to call to himself a people that he knew not in a saving sense, and he shall so call nations that knew not him that they shall run unto him.
We do not preach the gospel, dear brethren, at haphazard; we are sure of results. If we speak in faith, in the name of Christ, men must be saved, they must run to Christ. It is not left to their option; there is a divine hand that secretly touches the springs of the will of men, so that, when Christ calls them, they run unto him. Oh, that he would just now call them, even those that are furthest off, that they may run unto him, and that he may be glorified!
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Trust in God’s preserving, purifying power through all of your suffering
Today, we prayed that God would draw us closer to himself through all of our trials. This was one of the major themes in Spurgeon’s teaching on suffering — God uses all of the circumstances in our life to draw us to himself.
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