DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Bless, Lord, my church, and let nothing spring up in this church that would grieve your Holy Spirit. We know that there are some among us that walk not after your commandments, some that grow cold, some that are negligent in prayer, some that add nothing to the strength of your service. But Lord, is it not so with all the churches?
Oh, will you not still continue to look upon the faithful, and to make them yet more faithful; and to look upon the wandering, and the backsliding, and to restore them, lest they be an occasion of grief unto your Israel, as Achan was who had hidden away the Babylonish garment, and the wedge of gold in his tent.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“… making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” (Ephesians 4:3)
The text bids us endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit, but it does not tell us to endeavor to maintain the unity of evil, the unity of superstition, or the unity of spiritual tyranny! The unity of evil we are to break down by every weapon our hands can grasp. The unity of the Spirit we are to maintain and foster is another thing. We dare not commit the sin of quenching the Holy Spirit even though it were with the view of promoting unity!
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