Pray with Spurgeon

WEEKEND EDITION

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PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)

Prepare your heart to gather with your church on Sunday. Join Spurgeon in prayer for the saints and sinners who will hear God's Word at your church tomorrow.

We do pray for all who are out of the way; for those in this congregation who remain unsaved. Lord, do not let them die in their sins. Have mercy upon those who have had a godly training but remain ungodly. Do not condemn them, we pray, with such a mass of guilt upon them; but save them even now.

Lord, have great mercy upon those who are ignorant of Christ and therefore sin, but do not know what they do. Let them become trophies of your wondrous love. Gather them in today.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings — and sometimes they’re just funny. Today, we’ll read a letter that Spurgeon sent to his publisher after a courier delivered a sermon manuscript to be reviewed before publication to Spurgeon on a snowy night.

Dear Mr. Passmore,

When that good little lad came here on Monday with the sermon, late at night, it was necessary. But please blow somebody up for sending the poor little creature here, late tonight, in all this snow, with a parcel much heavier than he ought to carry. He could not get home until eleven, I fear; and I feel like a cruel brute in being the innocent cause of having a poor lad out at such an hour on such a night. There was no need at all for it. Do kick somebody for me, so that it may not happen again.

Yours ever heartily,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I CAN’T PRAY LONG PRAYERS?

This section of the Weekend Edition will include Spurgeon’s answers to timely questions. Respond to this email with your questions.

Short prayers are long enough. Not length, but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat. Precious things lie in small compass, and all that is real prayer in many a long address might have been uttered in a petition as short as “Save me.”