PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
May we not be ashamed to be old fashioned, and to be thought fanatical. May we not wish to be thought cultured, nor aim to keep abreast of the times. May we be side by side with you, O bleeding Savior; and be content to be rejected, be willing to take up unpopular truth, and to hold fast despised teachings of sacred writ even to the end. Oh make us faithful—faithful unto death.
Now Lord, bless this people, this our beloved church. You have been very gracious to us; be gracious to us still. Oh that we had health and strength to labor here as our heart desires: may it please you yet to give us these! But if not, use what there is of us until the last is gone, and be pleased ever to find some one or other to go in and out before this people, to feed them with knowledge and understanding. “Father, glorify your name.”
Amen.
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Work for Jesus
“My son, go work in the vineyard today.” (Matthew 21:28)
The text, I hope, may be blest of God to be such a voice as that. Listening to it, we notice four things. First, the character under which it calls us, “Son;” secondly, the service to which it calls us, “go work;” thirdly, the time for which it calls us, “go work today;” and fourthly, the place to which it directs us, “go work to-day in my vineyard.”
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