DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, come to us now. We have often asked wrongly we know, but you will forgive the error of it. But we love asking through Jesus Christ, and you cannot deny us. Lord, we believe. We would not waver; we shall have nothing of the Lord if we waver. We believe that you will bless us. We believe that souls shall this morning be saved, and that our souls shall be stirred up. We ask it again, believing that we shall receive it, for his dear sake, to whom, with you and the blessed Spirit, be glory forever.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:14)
It does not mean that every prayer will be answered. The power to ask a thing in Christ’s name is not given to everybody. It is not merely to say at the end of your prayer, “for Christ’s sake.” It is another thing; it is to be able to feel that, as Christ stood in your place, so you dare stand in Christ’s place; and what you have asked, you have asked in his name, feeling that what you have asked is such that Christ would have asked it. Now, when you can feel that, and can feel that Christ puts his seal on what you have asked, then you ask in his name.
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