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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.

Our Father, if there are any who are mourning and hanging their heads in sorrow, we ask you to lift up the light of your countenance upon them and bring them gladness. On this Day of the Lord’s Resurrection, may no soul be left in the gloom of the tomb. May all the saints rejoice in their risen Lord today, rising with him, seated together with him in the heavenly realms, and sharing in the fullness of his joy.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a letter Spurgeon sent while sick, a model of hope in God.

Dear Sir,

Shut in by rain on Sunday, I receive your brotherly note. I thank you very much. The Lord be with you and all his saints in Aberdeen. I progress slowly, but I think surely. In me, let his will be done, and that will be joy to me, be it what it may.

Yours very heartily,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: HOW DOES THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS GIVE US HOPE WHEN WE FACE DEATH?

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

When the children of Israel went through the Jordan, they were told that the Jordan would divide before them. But they were still more fully assured when the priests went forward with the ark, for as soon as the feet of the priests touched the margin of the river, the waters began to divide. As they saw their priests march through the bed of the stream and come up on the other side, all doubts about the security of the passage must have vanished at once, for the priests were the representatives of the people before God, and where they passed safely all Israel might go.

See then, the “the apostle and high priest of our confession” (Hebrews 3:1) has led the vanguard. The ark of the eternal covenant has gone before; death is dried up, so that we can say, “Where, death, is your victory? Where, death, is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55) And you and I may with perfect confidence, full of a living hope, march onward into the glory land, for Jesus Christ has safely passed the flood and even so shall we.