DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We ask you, strengthen your servants for the battles of another week. Give us courage for all the trials, give us grace for all the joys. Help us to be a holy and a happy people! Let the redeemed of the Lord speak well of his name, and whatever our distress may be at times, yet over all may we lift up notes of perpetual joy, glorying in the name of the Lord their God.
We ask you, O God, at this time to revive religion in our land. Oh, that you would be pleased to speak by the Holy Ghost that the gospel’s power may be known, that there might be many that run away from the truth. Lord, hold us fast to it, bind us to it. May there be a people found in this place, and throughout this land, that will abide by the doctrines of the gospel, come what may.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.” (Hebrews 2:14–15)
There is no true deliverance from the fear of death except by looking to him whose death is the death of death. How does Christ take away the fear of death? First, by taking away from us the sin that is the sting of death. When sin is forgiven, we have perfect peace with God. Second, by changing the character of death itself. Death to the believer is not an execution; it is deliverance, freedom from slavery, and admission into the glory of God.
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