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Charles Spurgeon · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Spurgeon adds some wise advice “Brethren, we want renewed appearances, fresh manifestations, new visitations from on high; and I commend to those of you who are getting on in life, that while you thank God for the past, and look back with joy to His visits to you in your early days, you now seek and ask for a second visitation of the Most High....We do not need to be converted again; yet we do want that again over our heads the windows of heaven should be opened, that again a Pentecost should be given, and that we should renew our youth like the eagles, to run without weariness, and walk without fainting. (Isaiah 40:31+) The Lord fulfill to everyone of His people to-night His blessing upon Solomon!” Phil Emerson - Keep looking for those new visitations, as in verse two. There is always a fresh word from heaven. When we grow stale, heaven never does. If we stay in the Word, it will keep us safe and fresh. The psalmist called it a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. The lamp displays where you are standing and the light displays the way ahead. (1 Kings Devotional) William
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Spurgeon - Essential points in prayer 1 Kings 9:2–3 (Full sermon Essential Points in Prayer ) It is wrong for you, in a prayer-meeting, to pray with a view to an individual of importance, or with the remembrance of those present whose respect you would like to obtain. The mercy-seat is no place for the exhibition of your abilities. More evil still is it to take the opportunity of making personal remarks about others. I have heard of oblique hints having been given in prayer. I am sorry to say that I have even heard of remarks which have been so directly critical and offensive, that one knew what the brother was at and lamented it. Such a proceeding is altogether objectionable and irreverent. We do not even pray in prayer-meetings to correct doctrinal errors, nor to teach a body of divinity, nor to make remarks upon the errors of certain brethren, nor to impeach them before the Most High. These things should be earnest matters of supplication, but not of a sort of indirect preaching and scolding in prayer. It is conduct worthy of the accuser of the brethren to turn a prayer into an opportunity of finding fault with others. Our prayer must be ‘before God,’ or else it is not an acceptable prayer; and if eye, memory and thought can be shut to the presence of everybody else, except in that minor sense in which we must remember them in sympathy, then it is in the presence of God that we truly pray; and that, I say, may be done in public, if grace be given. For this we have need to pray, ‘O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. G Campbell