DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Look with great grace, we pray, O Lord, upon the slaves of sin that we will see today: break their fetters. Oh, save this people. We know there are some in this house that are, as yet, in the “poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness” (Acts 8:23).
Move, O Divine Spirit, over the people we will see today, and fetch out from among us those that know not God, that they may know themselves and their God this day. Oh make this to be a profitable, soul-winning day, one of the high days on which heaven’s bells shall ring out more sweetly than ever, because many and many a prodigal child has come back to the Father’s house, to make the Father glad.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.” (1 Corinthians 9:22)
The passion for saving sinners is implanted into believers for God’s glory. To change sinful people so they pant after an increase of holiness, to render stubborn wills eager for the spread of obedience, and to make wandering hearts earnest for the establishment of the abiding kingdom of the Redeemer—these are mighty feats of the divine grace of God and bring all glory to him.
Work for Jesus keeps us strong in faith and intense in love to him. Soul-winning keeps the heart lively and preserves our warm youth in Christ. It is a mighty refresher to decaying love. Love for souls will, in the end, bring to all who have it the highest joy beneath the stars—the joy of knowing that they have been made the spiritual parents of others.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
4 things to do after you sin
My friend Josh has a great resource ministry called Weapons of Grace, where he posts weekly encouragements to stay faithful, all rooted in the glorious grace of Christ.
I was blessed by his recent article on 4 things to do after you sin. This quick article is sober-minded and will help you mourn your sin, but it’s also an incredibly hopeful reminder of God’s grace.
Read “4 things to do after you sin” on Weapons of Grace
(P.S. Josh is also single, ladies)