Pray with Spurgeon

WEEKEND EDITION

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.

May this Sunday be a day to be remembered by us. May your people be in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day. And though we may not, like John in Patmos, behold the Lord with their visible eyes, yet may we see him spiritually and rejoice in the glory of his presence.

Bless the Word this morning. The burden of the Lord is upon us. Help us to deliver your Word with power. Oh, that you would enable us to plead with sinners. We have sought to plead with God for men; now may we plead with men for God.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS (FATHER’S DAY EDITION)

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a note that Spurgeon sent to his father on January 30, 1850 — just a few weeks after Spurgeon’s conversion.

My Dear Father,

How sweet is prayer! I would be always engaged in it. How beautiful is the Bible! I never loved it this way before; it seems to me as necessary food. I feel that I do not have one particle of spiritual life in me that the Spirit did not place there. I feel that I could not live if he departed; I tremble and fear lest I should grieve him. I dread lest sloth or pride should overcome me, and I should dishonor the gospel by neglect of prayer or the Scriptures, or by sinning against God. Truly, that will be a happy place where we shall get rid of sin and this depraved corrupt nature. When I look at the horrible pit and the hole from which I have been digged, I tremble lest I should fall into it, and yet rejoice that I am on the King’s highway. I hope you will forgive me for taking up so much space about myself; but at present my thoughts are most about it.

I ever remain your dutiful and affectionate son,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: I FEEL ALONE. IS GOD REALLY WITH ME?

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

“I will never leave you.” (Hebrews 13:5)

Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. Whether he gave the word to Abraham or to Moses, matters not believer; he has given it to you as one of the covenanted children. There is not a high blessing too lofty for you, nor a wide mercy too extensive for you. Lift up your eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is yours.

Be bold to believe, for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” In this promise, God gives to his people everything. “I will never leave you.” Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for us. Is he mighty? He will show himself strong on the behalf of them that trust him. Is he love? Then with lovingkindness will he have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text—“I will never leave you or forsake you.”