DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Come, Holy Spirit: we adore you from the bottom of our hearts, and we pray for you to work mightily with your people, that work may be done and Christ may be glorified. Save, we pray, those we know who have not yet tasted that the Lord is gracious. Save them today. May a second thought drop into their hearts, and work there like a fire spot, setting their sin alight that it may be consumed. May many be so impressed this morning as never to forget, but to turn to God with full purpose of heart.
O my Lord, continue to give me fruit among this people. I ask you, bring my friends and family to be obedient to Christ. Your people are praying with me now, as with one heart—Lord save the ungodly! Save those, also, who are hearers but have never felt the divine power with the word. Save them now even this day.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Jesus replied, ‘This is the work of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.’” (John 6:29)
Faith is most pleasing to God because it is the comprehensive summary of all true work. There lies within a heart of faith every possible form of holiness. As a forest may lie asleep within an acorn, so within the bounds of faith, little though it is, every virtue lies hidden. It may be microscopic in form, but it is certainly there and only needs development.
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