DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, help us to know the power of your resurrection. This day, may we rise from all our natural apathy, and sluggishness, and insensibility, to have a tender, fleshy heart that shall feel deep contrition on account of sin, and a profound sympathy with Christ in his griefs on account of sin.
Lord, give us to leave the world behind us, reckoning it to be a grave in which we must not rest; for he has raised us, though we were dead in trespasses and sin. May we rise into newness of life, and as we have been buried with him in the likeness of his death, let us rise with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For his faithful love to us is great; the LORD’s faithfulness endures forever. Hallelujah!” (Psalm 117:2)
He has kept his covenant promise that in the seed of Abraham should all nations of the earth be blessed, and he will eternally keep every single promise of that covenant to all those who put their trust in him. This should be a cause of constant and grateful praise, wherefore the Psalm concludes as it began, with another Hallelujah, “Praise ye the Lord.”
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