DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh that we could praise you! We do not feel like praying just now so much as praising you. Oh for an overflowing power of the Holy Spirit kindling our whole soul, our whole being, like a burnt-offering, that we might smoke toward heaven, rising in flames of rapturous love and mighty adoration.
The Lord lives. Blessed be my rock, and let the God of Israel be exalted. He is my God, and I will extol him. He is my father’s God and I will prepare him a habitation. Oh let the people praise you, great God, let all the people praise you; then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our God, shall bless us.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.” (Psalm 100:4)
To the occurrence of the word thanksgiving in this place the psalm probably owes its title. In all our public service the rendering of thanks must abound; it is like the incense of the temple, which filled the whole house with smoke. Expiatory sacrifices are ended, but those of gratitude will never be out of date.
So long as we are receivers of mercy we must be givers of thanks. Mercy permits us to enter his gates; let us praise that mercy. What better subject for our thoughts in God’s own house than the Lord of the house.
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