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November 22 Daily Devotional

Morning and Evening

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Brothers and sisters, pray for us” (1 Thessalonians 5:25).

Bible Reading

1 Thessalonians 5:23–28

Devotional

We set aside this one morning in the year to refresh the reader’s memory on the subject of praying for ministers. And we do earnestly implore every Christian household: please grant the fervent request of the text which an apostle first uttered, and which we now repeat.

Brothers and sisters, our work is gravely important. It involves either blessing or curse to thousands. We deal with souls on eternal business for God. Our words are either an aroma that brings life or an aroma that brings death (2 Cor. 2:16). It is a very heavy responsibility that rests upon us. It will be no small mercy if we will be found clear of the blood of all men in the end.

As officers in Christ’s army, we are the special target of the enmity of men and devils. They watch for us to waver, and they work to trip us up. Our sacred calling involves us in temptations from which you are exempt. Above all, it too often draws us away from our own personal enjoyment of truth into a ministerial and official consideration of it. We meet with many knotty cases so that our wits are often at an end. We see very sad backslidings so that our hearts are wounded. We see millions perishing so that our spirits sink.

We want to benefit you by our preaching. We yearn to be blessed to your children’s profit. We long to be useful both to saints and sinners. Therefore, dear friends, please intercede for us with our God. How miserable we are if we miss the help of your prayers, but how happy we are if we live in your supplications.

You do not look to us but to our Master for spiritual blessings, and yet he ordinarily gives those blessings through his ministers as his instruments. Please ask again and again, then, that we may be the jars of clay into which the Lord puts the treasure of the gospel (2 Cor. 4:7). We, the whole company of ministers, missionaries, church planters, and seminarians, beseech you in the name of Jesus: “Brothers and sisters, pray for us.”

[July 7]

Extracted from C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (public domain), language modernized by Larry E. Wilson.

 

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