DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our hearts pour out in prayer for the unconverted, knowing their future in a few years’ time. We plead, by your wrath, deliver them from it. By the fires of hell, ransom them from its depths. By the dread of the wrath to come, have mercy on these sons of men, even those who show no mercy to themselves.
Father, you have promised that your Son shall see the fruit of his suffering. We point to the ransom paid; we remind you of your Son’s groans, his agony, and his bloody sweat. Gaze upon sinners with eyes that beheld the ultimate sacrifice. Speak the word, and bid them live.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?” (James 4:1)
Whether between nations, or parties, or individuals—if there are wars and fightings, where do they come from? Do they not arise from one desiring something, and another desiring the same thing? Is there not a competition or emulation of an evil kind, in which each one prefers himself, and seeks not the good of his neighbor?
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