I recently subscribed to an email list where I get a small prayer and devotional from the one and only Charles Spurgeon. Actually, since Spurgeon has been dead for 132 years, the words are his but the sender is most likely not.
Spurgeon is considered one of the greatest Baptist preachers and one of the most famous people from the 19th century. He always seemed to have a way of speaking the truth that speaks directly to my heart and doesn’t mince the truth in any way, something that is sorely lacking in this modern evangelical age.
Here’s the email I received most recently that could have been my diary:
| “DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON) |
| This morning, we feel inclined to bless you for the many occasions in which you did not answered our prayer; for you have said that we asked wrongly and therefore we could not have; and we desire to register this prayer with you, that whenever we do ask wrongly, you would, in great wisdom and love, be pleased to refuse us. |
| Amen. |
| VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON) |
| “You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.” (James 4:3) |
| The lusts of the flesh come in, and put us upon the wrong track; or if we take the right road, yet, if the lusts are there, God will not bless us, because, in doing so, he would be helping us to gratify our lusts.“ |
Here’s the link if you want to subcribe:
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