DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
In the recollection of all that you have done for us, your people, we are filled with amazement, as well as with gratitude, that you should have loved us before the foundation of the world; that sovereign love should have pitched upon us poor unworthy ones, that you should so love us as to redeem us with the blood of Jesus and give the Only Begotten to die for unworthy creatures like to us; that you should love us notwithstanding our sins and transgressions, that you should love us despite the hardness of our hearts and the rebellion of our nature. It is strange, it surpasses belief at times; yet do we know it to be so.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Hallelujah! I will praise the LORD with all my heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.” (Psalm 111:1)
“Praise ye the LORD,” or, Hallelujah! All you his saints unite in adoring the Lord, who works so gloriously. Do it now, do it always, do it heartily, do it unanimously, do it eternally. Even if others refuse, take care that you always have a song for your God. Put away all doubt, question, murmuring, and rebellion, and give yourselves up to the praising of the Lord, both with your lips and in your lives.
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