PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
We pray with great earnestness that you would bless this church. We thank you for additions made to our members; we pray that they may be good men, and true, holy women, in their very hearts. Lord, keep those that are in membership. Let us not fall; let us not fall. Make us all useful. Keep the church in unity, peace and concord, and give it zeal and passionate longing for the conversion of the souls of men.
O Lord, we do ask you to remember us this weekend, when we come to worship you together, may the Lord be there! And when we gather together may a very large tide of blessing come. May many be brought in who now think nothing of you. While we are preaching, may the Holy Spirit be working, may souls be saved by thousands.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
Serving the Lord with Gladness
“Serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalm 100:2)
The man who has once known, who has tasted that the Lord is gracious, and been made to enter into the Lord’s covenant of mercy, and has seen under what obligations he is laid to the lovingkindness and tender mercy of the Lord, to such a man the very thought of serving God is liberty. He delights to run in the way of God’s commandments, and the statutes of the Most High are to him sweeter than honey, or the droppings of the honeycomb.
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