pray with Spurgeon

The following is from the daily email “Pray with Spurgeon”. May God continue to grab our hearts and we spend more time in prayer.

Oh God, be revealed, wherever congregations are met together, that men may come to you and live. Oh that the people that we will speak to this week, might not one of them go away unbelievers. If they have been indifferent to these things, and have never studied the ground of the believer’s confidence, may they see it clearly this week, and accept of it as the rock on which they shall build.

Oh, if there be in this audience, as we fear there must be, many that are living to trust in their wealth, or their talents, or their position in life; or who are trusting in nothing, but raising their building without a foundation at all; Oh, bring them this day to see, that there is nothing worthy of an immortal soul’s confidence except the immortal and everliving God, and may they come by Christ Jesus unto the Father. May many a heart end all its weary wanderings, and sit still at Christ’s feet, and see the salvation of God.

Amen.

Ephesians 6:18 NASB

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

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