PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Today, as we gather, we pray that your truth may prevail against the many anti-Christs that have gone forth against it. Our Father, restore a pure language to your Zion once again. Take away, we pray, the itching for new doctrine, the longing for that which is thought to be scientific and wise above what is written, and may your church come to her moorings, may she cast anchor in the truth of God and there abide; and if it be your will may we live to see brighter and better times.
Amen.
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A Faithful Friend
“… there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24)
The world’s friendship is ever brittle. Trust to it, and you have trusted a robber; rely upon it, and you have leaned upon a thorn; ay, worse than that, upon a spear which shall pierce you to the soul with agony. Yet Solomon says he had found “a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Not in the haunts of his unbridled pleasures, nor in the wanderings of his unlimited resources, but in the pavilion of the Most High, the secret dwelling-place of God, in the person of Jesus, the Son of God, the Friend of sinners.
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