DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now, Lord, bless your people. Let those that fear your name be happy in you. May those who are truly yours, have a joyous and happy season. May they rejoice in the great love of God, and feel their souls overflow with delight at their remembrance of it.
But, oh, we ask you especially save souls. May many, many, many be brought out of darkness into marvelous light, and delivered from the prison-house into the liberty of Christ. Lord, there are some people we know who have heard us many times, and yet you have not spoken to their hearts effectually. Oh, speak to them. Take them in hand, great Lord. They shall be made willing in the day of your power. Oh, that this might be the day of your power!
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Then I will teach the rebellious your ways, and sinners will return to you.” (Psalm 51:13)
Do you not see, brothers and sisters, that we must be in a right state of heart if we are to serve God well? We cannot teach transgressors his way, with a confident hope that they will be converted unto him, unless we ourselves possess the joy of God’s salvation, and are upheld by his good Spirit. If we go to God’s work out of order, we shall make a mess of it, and accomplish nothing that is really worth doing; but when God gives us his comforting grace within, and his upholdings on every hand, then shall we teach with power, and sinners shall learn to profit.
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Today we prayed that our evangelistic conversations this week would be fruitful. Are you ready to be the answer to this prayer? To share the Word boldly and clearly with non-believers you know?
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Marks of the Messenger by Mack Stiles is a short book on evangelism that has the power to transform your life. In the book, Stiles shows that evangelism isn’t motivated by fear, guilt, or pragmatism, it’s simply to be motivated by who Christ is and our faith in him.
This summer, as many places and events re-open after a season of quarantine, will be full of opportunities for evangelism. God wants to do a work through you this summer — get prepared and motivated by reading Marks of the Messenger.