Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday February 6, 2023 |
Morning Time: 7:08 AM PST
"Praying always." --Ephesians 6:18
What multitudes of prayers we have put up from the first moment when we
learned to pray. Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God
would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when He had
blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we had more prayers for ourselves. We
have had to pray for sanctifying grace, for constraining and restraining grace;
we have been led to crave for a fresh assurance of faith, for the comfortable
application of the promise, for deliverance in the hour of temptation, for help
in the time of duty, and for succour in the day of trial. We have been compelled
to go to God for our souls, as constant beggars asking for everything. Bear
witness, children of God, you have never been able to get anything for your
souls elsewhere. All the bread your soul has eaten has come down from heaven,
and all the water of which it has drank has flowed from the living rock--Christ
Jesus the Lord. Your soul has never grown rich in itself; it has always been a
pensioner upon the daily bounty of God; and hence your prayers have ascended to
heaven for a range of spiritual mercies all but infinite. Your wants were
innumerable, and therefore the supplies have been infinitely great, and your
prayers have been as varied as the mercies have been countless. Then have you
not cause to say, "I love the Lord, because He hath heard the voice of my
supplication"? For as your prayers have been many, so also have been God's
answers to them. He has heard you in the day of trouble, has strengthened you,
and helped you, even when you dishonoured Him by trembling and doubting at the
mercy-seat. Remember this, and let it fill your heart with gratitude to God, who
has thus graciously heard your poor weak prayers. "Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all His benefits."
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