Psalm 20:7

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

“I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.”
—Psalm 23:4

Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian’s heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss!

Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit’s power to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content.

Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross—a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the ears fail you? Jesus’ name will be your soul’s best music, and His person your dear delight. Socrates used to say, “Philosophers can be happy without music.” Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.

In thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below.

C.H. Spurgeon

COVID-19 Crisis Prayer - Pastor Mike

Today's Prayer

Crisis Prayer Topic:  Serve the LORD with Gladness

As we begin this week of prayer and devotion to the LORD, let us determine to do so in reverence and awe and wonder of His love and goodness to us.  He has been so faithful and gracious to us.  Good reason to give Him the praise due only to Him!

“Make a joyful shout unto the LORD, all you lands!”   Psalm 100: 1

Pray we would make a conscious, daily decision by the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit to allow the LORD God to reign in our hearts and minds and actions and speech each day.  Pray all our interactions with others would reflect the joy of the LORD in our lives and hearts.  That they would know the joy of the LORD as our strength. 

Pray that we would serve the LORD with gladness and that service to Him would bless others.  Pray we would come to know even further and fuller how the LORD, He is God and He is good.  How He made us.  How we are the sheep of His pasture.

Pray we would very soon be able to enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.  That the houses of worship all through our country would reopen for worship to the LORD God.  Pray we would be thankful, even in difficult times and trials.  Pray we would bless His name today.

Pray we would remember:  The LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.