PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
At this time, we pray that you would bless the entire church of God in every part of the earth. Prosper the work and service of Christian people, however they endeavor to spread the kingdom of Christ. Convert the heathen; enlighten those that are in any form of error. Bring the entire church back to the original form of Christianity. Make her first pure, and then she shall be united. Oh Savior, let your kingdom come. Oh, that you would reign, and your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
Gladness from Sadness
“Make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity.” (Psalm 90:15)
First, then, beloved friends, our prayer this morning as a church and people should be for PROPORTIONATE GLADNESS; that our God who has filled one scale with grief would fill the other scale with grace till they balance each other. Inasmuch as he has poured out of his vial certain drops of wormwood, we pray him to measure out the like quantity of the consolation of love, whereby our hearts shall be comforted. May our covenant God, who has chastened us heavily, now revive us graciously.
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