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🛐 Daily Prayer: "We come in the name of Jesus. He is our high priest; he is our righteousness; he is the well-beloved in whom you are well pleased."

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SpurgeonBooks
February 13, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our God, we stand not afar off as Israel did in Sinai, nor does a veil hang dark between your face and ours; but the veil is rent by the death of our divine Lord and mediator, Jesus Christ. In his name we come up to the mercy seat all sprinkled with blood and here we present our prayers and our praises accepted in him.

We do confess that we are guilty; we bow our heads and confess that we have broken your law and the covenant of which it is a part. If you dealt with us under the covenant of works none of us could stand. We must confess that we deserve your wrath and to be banished for ever from your presence. But you have made a new covenant, and we come under its divine shadow; we come in the name of Jesus. He is our high priest; he is our righteousness; he is the well-beloved in whom you are well pleased.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.” (Psalm 126:5)

Present distress must not be viewed as if it would last forever: it is not the end, by any means, but only a means to the end. Sorrow is our sowing, rejoicing shall be our reaping. We must sow: we may have to sow in the wet weather of sorrow, but we shall reap, and reap in the bright summer season of joy. Let us keep to the work of this present sowing time, and find strength in the promise which is here so positively given us.

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