DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh that the time were come, set for your coming, when the hidden shall be revealed, and the church of God shall no longer need her wings with which to fly, but shall come forth in all the glory with which your love arrays her, clothed with the sun and with the moon beneath her feet. Glory, and honor, and majesty, and power, and dominion, and might, be unto him that sits upon the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever (Revelation 5:13)!
And now, we present ourselves before the throne of the great King to pay our reverence and homage there; for the Lord is God alone, and our heart worships him intensely, reverently bowing unto the very dust before the Lord; for we are less than nothing, and the Lord is all in all.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood…” (Revelation 1:5)
John had hardly begun to deliver his message to the seven churches, he had hardly given in his name and stated from whom the message came, when he felt that he must lift up his heart in a joyful doxology. The very mention of the name of the Lord Jesus fired his heart. He could not sit down coolly to write even what the Spirit of God dictated: he must rise; he must fall upon his knees; he must bless and magnify, and adore the Lord Jesus.
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Today’s prayer and verse of the day focused on the wonders and the greatness of Jesus. When we see Jesus for who he really is, in all of his beauty as the King of all Ages, we have to fall to our faces in worship. We must lay everything on the table in submission to this great king.
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