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. This prayer is a timely reminder to pray for those who are not present on Sunday mornings.

Lord, we ask for your blessings to be upon our dear friends who cannot gather in your house. You remember them, and so do we. May you send your blessings to them in their homes. Oh, may the places where they reside be filled with the presence of their Lord. Restore the sick among us, and for those in our fellowship who are appointed to face death, may the Lord be solemnly present with them.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a note that Spurgeon sent to his adult son Thomas.

My Dear Son Tom,

I hope the engraving business is becoming an easy matter with you. God bless you, my boy, and prosper you for this life, but yet more for the life to come. Work as steadily in both spheres of service; to neglect either would be like tying up one of your hands or one of your feet. God is glorified in the shop and in the pulpit. May you see good results in both directions! I pray for you in relation to the two. I hope Bolingbroke does not get empty through the cold and wet. I must help you there. Kiss your dear mother, and try and tell her how dear she is to us all three. Our angel and delight, is she not?

With much love, your affectionate father,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: HOW CAN I LIVE A PURE LIFE?

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

Where shall we find a pure man? Where are they born? We answer, no men are born so. Who shall bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No, not one. As our parents have sinned, we, their children, are born with tendencies to sin; we are impure even from the birth. There are none pure but those who are made so by a second creation.

And these are not absolutely pure. Even in those who are entitled to be called “pure in heart,” there remains impurity. There is sin in the best of men, and if they do not perceive it, it must be because they are blinded with a foolish self-conceit, for in the purest heart there still remains connected with it the old nature and the impurity inherited from the first Adam. This makes life a perpetual conflict until life’s close.

Still, we name men by their predominant characteristics. The partial impurity of a good man does not entitle him to be called impure. If the master-principle within him, the reigning principle, be purity, he is a pure man. A man may once in his life have spoken an untruth; he may have been surprised into saying that is a thing which is not; but if the general tenor of his life be stern integrity, we do not, therefore, condemn him and brand him as a liar, otherwise where were the men living upon earth who would be worthy of a name implying praise? The godly are pure—have been made pure by regeneration, and they are pure, though not absolutely so.