DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father in heaven, here at your footstool we confess that our hearts are full of evil. We are always going astray from you; and though we have tasted of your love, and know something of its constraining power, yet is our soul as full of vanity as a cage that is crowded with unclean birds. Even when we would pray, our distracted thoughts are flying hither and thither. How little of our time do we spend in your service. How few are the words that we speak about you, or for your. How little is the aroma of Christ upon our garments. How seldom do we rise to God, or taste of joy above! We are of the earth, earthy; and though we hope that in some degree we are spiritual, yet alas, we are compelled to feel that we are carnal. We acknowledge, O God, our sins of omission. We have all of us forgotten you and forsaken you, times without number. Nor are we without sins of commission too, for we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have done those things which we ought not to have done, as well as left undone those things which we ought to have done.
Oh, that you would have mercy upon us and blot out all our sins.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“I did not say to the descendants of Jacob: Seek me in a wasteland. I am the LORD, who speaks righteously, who declares what is right.” (Isaiah 45:19)
God has clearly revealed that he will hear the prayer of those who call upon him, and that declaration cannot be contravened. He has so firmly, so truthfully, so righteously spoken, that there can be no room for doubt. He does not reveal his mind in unintelligible words, but he speaks plainly and positively, “Ask, and you shall receive.” Believe, O trembler, this sure truth—that prayer must and shall be heard, and that never, even in the secrets of eternity, has the Lord said unto any living soul, “Seek me in vain.”
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