DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
As we are now making intercession; we would, according to your word, pray for all kings and such as are in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives (1 Timothy 2:1–2). We pray for all nations also. O Lord bless and remember the lands that sit in darkness, and let them see a great light; and may the missionary enterprise be abundantly successful.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord told them, ‘The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.’” (Luke 10:2)
The seventy were very few compared with the many that were needed. There were many loiterers about then as there are now, but the laborers were few. There were preachers of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they were not worth a penny a hundred; but the true laborers, who watched for souls, and preached Christ with all their hearts, were very few. It is the same today; and therefore we are to pray for more laborers. A good minister always desires to see more good ministers. In a trade, every tradesman would be glad if those of the same trade as himself would move to another parish; but in the profession of a Christian minister, the more the merrier.
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