Pray with Spurgeon

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh, what encouragement we have to pray to such a prayer-hearing God who far exceeds the request of his children. Blessed be the name of the Lord forever, our inmost heart is saying. Amen, blessed be his name. If it were only for answered prayer or even for some unanswered prayers we would continue to praise and bless you as long as we have any being.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

The Lord condescends to describe himself as making speed to carry out his gracious engagements, saying, “I the Lord will hasten it in his time” (Isaiah 60:22). But we must not pray in this fashion, as though we had the slightest fear that the Lord could or would delay, or that he needed us to quicken his diligence. No. “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness” (2 Peter 3:9). Our God is slow to anger, but in deeds of grace “his word runs very swiftly” (Psalm 147:15).

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