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.

We beg you especially, save souls this weekend. Make up for our ten Sabbaths with no harvest. Give us ten times as many this weekend—no, it must be eleven times as much; we cannot afford to lose this one. Give us eleven times as much blessing as we have ever had before. May many, many, many be brought out of darkness into marvelous light, and delivered from the prison-house into the liberty of Christ.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

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

My Dear Father,

Many thanks to you for your kind instructive, and unexpected letter. My very best love to dear Mother; I hope she will soon be better.

At our last church-meeting, I was proposed. No one has been to see me yet. I hope that now I may be doubly circumspect, and doubly prayerful. How could a Christian live happily, or live at all, if he had not the assurance that his life is in Christ, and his support, the Lord’s undertaking? I am sure I would not have dared to take this great decisive step were it not that I am assured that omnipotence will be my support, and the shepherd of Israel will be my constant protector. Prayer is to me now what the sucking of milk was to me in my infancy. Although I do not always feel the same relish for it, yet I am sure I cannot live without it.

Your affectionate son,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: HOW SHOULD I RESPOND TO SUFFERING IN MY LIFE?

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

When you are bowed down beneath a heavy burden of sorrow, then take to worshipping the Lord and especially to that kind of worshiping which lies in adoring God, and in making a full surrender of yourself to the divine will, so that you can say with Job, “Even if he kills me, I will hope in him” (Job 13:15). That kind of worshiping which lies in the subduing of the will, the arousing of the affections, the stirring of the whole mind and heart, and the presentation of oneself to God over again in solemn consecration, will often sweeten sorrow and take the sting out of it.