DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, if we at any time press our own will, without a sufficient resignation to your will, do not regard us we pray; and though we cry unto you day and night, concerning anything, yet, if you see that we err in it, regard not the voice of our cry we pray. It is our heart’s desire in our coolest moments, that this prayer might stand on record as long as we live,—“Not as I will, but as you will.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“…because our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with full assurance. You know how we lived among you for your benefit.” (1 Thessalonians 1:5)
Paul never had a happier time in preaching, it would seem, than when he preached to these Thessalonians. He felt a power resting upon him. He spoke with great positiveness and assurance of the gospel, and consequently, the people received it in power, and the assurance of the hearer made the assurance of the speaker. It is a great mercy when it is so.
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