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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.

Lord, we ask you to help all in our house of worship to look to Jesus Christ alone. Perhaps some backsliders here are questioning whether they ever did believe in Jesus. May they forget that question and believe in him now. May they be content to let the past go and come once and for all, if they never did come, and embrace the savior whom you, great God, have set forth as all-sufficient to save.

Let Peter weep bitterly, but let him come to his master again. Oh, let the most wandering ones cry to you; may they look to your holy temple and as they look, let the eternal life stream into them again by the energy of the eternal Spirit. May they feel that whatever the past may have been, they are restored like prodigal children to a feast of love, restored forever to the Father’s house.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a letter that Spurgeon sent to his friend James Watts, celebrating God’s work through his church.

My very dear friend,

Now for the cause at New Park Street. We are getting on too fast. Our harvest is too rich for the barn. We have had one meeting to consider an expansion—quite unanimous—meet again on Wednesday, and then a committee will be chosen immediately to provide a larger accommodation. On Thursday evenings, people can scarcely find a vacant seat, I should think not a dozen in the whole chapel. On Sundays, the crowd is immense and seat-holders cannot get into their seats; half-an-hour before time, the aisles are a solid block, and many stand through the whole service, wedged in by their fellows and prevented from escaping by the crowd outside who seal up the doors and fill the yard in front and stand in throngs as far as the sound can reach. I refer mainly to the evening, although the morning is nearly the same.

Souls are being saved. I have more enquirers than I can attend to. From six to seven o’clock on Monday and Thursday evenings, I spend in my vestry; I give but brief interviews then, and have to send many away without being able to see them. The Lord is wondrous in praises.

I am yours truly,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: HOW CAN I BECOME WISE?

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

“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.” (James 1:5)

The Lord could very well scold us for our foolishness, saying, “Poor child, I will give you wisdom; yet you are very foolish.” But he does not say that. Instead, he “gives to all generously and ungrudgingly.” Let him who lacks wisdom ask of God: “and it will be given to him.” Can the Lord give wisdom? Surely, we must study, learn, and gain experience before we can know, and then afterwards knowledge, rightly used, grows into wisdom. Can God give us wisdom ready made? Oh, yes, he can! He gives wisdom if we ask for it.