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.

Blessed God, we must be helped of your Spirit or we cannot worship you rightly. Behold the holy angels adore you and the hosts redeemed by blood bring everlasting hallelujahs to your feet. What are we, the creatures of a day, polluted with sin, that we should think that we can praise you? And yet the music of praise is not complete if your children did not join in it, even those of us who are still in this world below. Help us, then; enable us to tune our harps and to fetch forth music from our spirit.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a Christmas letter that Spurgeon sent to the children living at his orphanage to wish them a Merry Christmas.

Dear boys and girls,

I send you all my love so far as the post can carry it with only a stamp. I wish you a real glorious Christmas. I might have said a jolly Christmas, if we had all been boys; but as some of us are girls, I will be proper, and say, “A merry Christmas!”

Enjoy yourselves and feel grateful to the kind friends who find money to keep the Stockwell Orphanage supplied. Bless their loving hearts, they never let you want for anything; may they have pleasure in seeing you all grow up to be good men and women. Feel very grateful also to the Trustees. These gentlemen are always at work arranging for your good. Give them three times three. Then there are Mr. Charlesworth, Mr. Ladds, and all the masters and the matrons. Each one of them deserves your love and gratitude and obedience. They try to do you good; try to cheer them all you can. I should like you to have a fine day—such a day as we have here; but if not, you will be warm and bright indoors. Three cheers for those who give us the good things for this festival. I want you for a moment in the day to be all still and spend the time in thanking our Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus for great goodness shown to you and to me, and then pray for me that I may get quite well. Mrs. Spurgeon and I both send our love to all the Stockwell family.

Yours very heartily,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: DID CHRIST CHANGE WHEN HE BECAME INCARNATE?

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

His essence did not undergo a change when it became united with the manhood. When Christ in past years did clothe himself with mortal clay, the essence of his divinity was not changed; flesh did not become God, nor did God become flesh by a real actual change of nature; the two were united in hypostatic union, but the Godhead was still the same. It was the same when he was a baby in the manger, as it was when he stretched the curtains of heaven; it was the same God that hung upon the cross, and whose blood flowed down in a purple river, the self-same God that holds the world upon his everlasting shoulders, and bears in his hands the keys of death and hell. He never has been changed in his essence, not even by his incarnation; he remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the shadow of a change.