DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We have many things to ask of you, but you know, without our use of words. Give to all before you, and to all your people everywhere, exactly what you see that they need. We pray for the revival of the Church of God, for help to be given this day to all preachers, and teachers, and seekers after the souls of others. We pray, Lord, that you would add to your church daily of those who are being saved.
With our whole heart many of us at least do pray that you would bless our country, and spare it from the horrible evils of war. O God of peace, send us peace always, by all means. Sword of the Lord rest and be quiet now; and may the gospel with its benign influences spread over all nations, until there shall be no selfish clutching, no rapacious grasping at territories, no oppression of one race by another.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words. Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.” (Matthew 6:7–8)
God does not need us to pray for his information, for he “knows the things you need before you ask him;” nor to repeat the prayer over and over for his persuasion, for as our Father he is willing to bless us. Therefore let us not be superstitious and dream that there is virtue in “much speaking.”
Repetitions we may have, but not “vain repetitions.” Counting beads, and reckoning the time occupied in devotion, are both idle things. Christians’ prayers are measured by weight, and not by length. Many of the most prevailing prayers have been as short as they were strong.
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