DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Some of the people have been much in trouble. May they get ease from every care, and relief from every anxiety, while they behold their Savior offered up for them. Some of your people we know, are getting cold in heart and backsliding. Grey hairs are upon them here and there, and perhaps they know it not. May they be brought back to that first heat of youthful piety, when first they knew the Lord.
It may be that there are some here who have backslidden very much. They have come to forget the assembling of themselves together. Prayer has been neglected; the closet is not often entered; it may be that family prayer is almost given up. There may be some in your presence who have even fallen into outward sin; may they come as mourners. May they hear you say, “Return unto me, for I am married unto you” (Jeremiah 3:14).
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2)
Do not live as men of the world do. Do not follow the customs, the fashions, the principles of the world. It is not enough to be nonconformists. Be transformed ones, altogether changed into another form.
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