| DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON) This morning, we feel inclined to bless you for the many occasions in which you have not answered our prayer; for you have said that we did ask wrongly, and therefore we could not have (James 4:3); and we desire to register this prayer with you, that whenever we do ask wrongly, you would, in great wisdom and love, be pleased to refuse us. Amen. |
| VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON) “You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.” (James 4:2–3) “You do not ask…” With all your efforts you do not succeed, because you omit to pray to God. Prayer would have brought you every blessing that you need; but, instead of going to God, and asking at his hands, you rush upon your neighbor, and seek to take what you desire as spoil from him. Perhaps some say, “But we do ask.” “Well, then,” saith the apostle, “you ask wrongly.” The lusts of the flesh come in, and put us upon the wrong track; or if we take the right road, yet, if the lusts are there, God will not bless us, because, in doing so, he would be helping us to gratify our lusts. |
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