DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We praise you. The last week was a week of many blessings for many of us, and if we did not praise you we could not pray, for he who does not remember favors received, can hardly ask for more. You have done great things for us, and we are glad. You have daily loaded us with benefits, our cup runs over. “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” Let not your people withhold their praises; may they pour them out like rivers of oil. As the incense rose in clouds from the holy altar, so may praise go up to God like the smoke of the morning sacrifice.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The LORD is for me; I will not be afraid. What can a mere mortal do to me?” (Psalm 118:6)
Man can do nothing more than God permits; at the very uttermost he can only kill the body, but he has nothing more that he can do. God having purposed to set his servant upon the throne, the whole race of mankind could do nothing to thwart the divine decree: the settled purpose of the Lord’s heart could not be turned aside, nor its accomplishment delayed, much less prevented, by the most rancorous hostility of the most powerful of men.
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