Only a prayer meeting by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the chapter entitled 'Honey out of the rock' and 'The prevalence of evil an argument in prayer'.
Firstly Spurgeon teaches us from the text "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee."—Psalm Ixxxi. 16. We learn that some of the honey from the rock is:
(i) a sweet sense of our security in Christ;
(ii) to know my perfection in Christ;
(iii) the saint's acceptance in Jesus;
(iv) the fulness which the believer has from Jesus
Secondly Spurgeon expounds "It is time for Thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void Thy law."—Psalm cxix. 126. He says that we should pray for God to do his work because people:
(i) deny the inspiration of the Scriptures;
(ii) teach a code of morals and a system of ethics contrary to the Word of God;
(iii) multiply rites and exalting ceremonies into a place which they should never usurp.
I appreciated the encouragement to think more of Christ: 'Do not have the devil's christ; he is a dwarf. THE CHRISTIAN'S CHRIST plants His foot where man lives, but His head is in the land where angels dwell. The devil would make you imagine that Christ is a weak, powerless being; do not believe any of his lies. Think highly of Christ, think lofty thoughts of Jesus. I defy you to think too much of Him. '
We cannot think too much of Him, but we should at least try!
Next week's reading
Read the chapter entitled 'The three "thens" of Isaiah's temple vision'.
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