DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
May we yet come into the certainties, where the birds sit on the waves and all is still. We shall come there we know in heaven, but even now give us the peace of God which passes all understanding, the perfect rest of conquered self, and of simple confidence in you. Why are you troubled; why are you cast down, O my soul, why art you disquieted within me? Bring your people again to the hill Mizar and to the land of the Hermonites; and yet again may they praise him, who is the health of their countenance and their God.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Don’t acquire gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts. Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a staff, for the worker is worthy of his food.” (Matthew 10:9–10)
When a ministry is really acceptable, the preacher will not be left to suffer want as to the absolute necessaries of life. They needed not even wait to find a staff; for if one was required, and they set off without it, one would be given. Among a willing people, such a mission is not only possible, but it is in the highest degree suitable. It is but right and just that people should support in temporals those who minister to them in spirituals, and it is right that plans should be adopted which cast this duty upon them, as in this case.
The preacher is to preach freely; but those who are benefited are also freely to find meat for him.
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