DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Bless our country, and bless it through the ministers of the gospel. May they begin to preach with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven. Restore to us the Revival, the skirts of whose departing presence we begin to see. Take not your blessing from our nation; extinguish not her candle; put not out her light.
Men have been warned and called, and entreated, and this city has had its day of visitation. Oh take not that day away forever, but return, blessed Spirit, return. And first return to my local church, and let a new season of wonderful revival begin in this house of prayer, and then spread from house to house, and from country to country, until the whole land shall be covered with its divine light.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
I pray that you would… “know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19)
He intended another kind of knowledge. I know many people—that is to say, I have seen them in the streets and they tip their hats to me, and I do the same to them. And thus I know them. This is a slender form of knowledge, yet I fear it is the kind of knowledge most people have of Christ. Even such a knowledge as comes by trembling faith is a knowledge that saves. But I will tell you the people I know best. They live with me in my own house. I see them every day. I am on the most familiar terms with them, and this is the knowledge here intended.
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