DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We ask for newness of life! Have you not said, “Behold, I make all things new?” Lord, let everything be new in us, and everything living, vividly living, quickened into fullness of life, life more abundantly. Grant us this, we pray, and then give us fellowship with you, even in your resurrection, until we are raised up together and made to sit together in the heavenly places with Christ, reigning with him as he reigns, exercising a hallowed priesthood, even as he exercises it, being made kings and priests unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.” (Matthew 5:3)
Spiritual poverty is both commanded and commended. It is the basis of Christian experience. No one begins rightly who has not felt poverty of spirit. Yet even to this first sign of grace is the kingdom given in present possession: “theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
The question in heaven’s kingdom is not, “Are you a peer?” but, “Are you poor in spirit?” Those who are of no account in their own eyes are of the blood royal of the universe. These alone have the principles and the qualifications for a heavenly kingdom. May I be such!
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