Lord help us to worship Thee in life as well as lip. May our whole being be taken up with Thee. As when the fire fell down on Elijah’s sacrifice of old and licked up even the water that was in the trenches, so may the consuming fire of the Divine Spirit use up all our nature, even that which might seem to hinder, even out of that may God get the glory by the removal of it. Thus would we adore.
(Prayer V, C.H. Spurgeon’s Prayers, p.26, Grand Rapids:Baker reprint 1978.)
Remember our land in this time of need. Do thou be pleased by some means to relieve the distress prevalent. Quicken the wheels of commerce that the many who are out of employment in this city may no longer be crying for work and bread. Oh! that thou wouldst make wars to cease to the ends of the earth, or, when they break out break Thou the slaves fetter thereby, and though desperate be the evil, yet grant that Satan may cast out Satan, and may his kingdom be divided, and so fall.
(Prayer IV, C.H. Spurgeon’s Prayers, p.23, Grand Rapids:Baker reprint 1978.)
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