Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday November 13, 2017 |
Evening Time: 4:56 PM PST
"Men ought always to pray." --Luke 18:1
If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men.
Jesus has sent His church into the world on the same errand upon which He
Himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the
church is the world's priest? Creation is dumb, but the church is to find a
mouth for it. It is the church's high privilege to pray with acceptance. The
door of grace is always open for her petitions, and they never return
empty-handed. The veil was rent for her, the blood was sprinkled upon the
altar for her, God constantly invites her to ask what she wills. Will she
refuse the privilege which angels might envy her? Is she not the bride of
Christ? May she not go in unto her King at every hour? Shall she allow the
precious privilege to be unused? The church always has need for prayer. There
are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There
are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in Christ's bosom? the
strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and the weak, lest they become despairing.
If we kept up prayer-meetings four-and-twenty hours in the day, all the days in
the year, we might never be without a special subject for supplication. Are we
ever without the sick and the poor, the afflicted and the wavering? Are we ever
without those who seek the conversion of relatives, the reclaiming of
back-sliders, or the salvation of the depraved? Nay, with congregations
constantly gathering, with ministers always preaching, with millions of sinners
lying dead in trespasses and sins; in a country over which the darkness of
Romanism is certainly descending; in a world full of idols, cruelties,
devilries, if the church doth not pray, how shall she excuse her base neglect of
the commission of her loving Lord? Let the church be constant in supplication,
let every private believer cast his mite of prayer into the treasury.
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