Only a prayer meeting by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the chapters entitled 'Tempted of the devil' and 'We shall get home'.
Firstly, today, Spurgeon answers some pleas for prayer from an anonymous letter. The pleas ask for advice against doubts and temptations which Spurgeon ultimately answers by encouraging the letter writer to keep on going to the Saviour.
Secondly, in the next chapter, Spurgeon shared that an old elder of his church commented to him recently that 'We shall get home'. Spurgeon agreed and made some points about how we are indeed going to heaven.
I liked Spurgeon's advice to the struggling Christian: 'Still, the main remedy is to keep on going to the Saviour as each new blasphemy is injected, and as each fresh sin is suggested, for He will send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to deliver you. If Satan sees a soul constantly driven to Christ by his temptations, he is too crafty to continue them. He will say to himself, " These attacks of mine accomplish nothing; for, every time that I tempt him, he runs to his Saviour, and so becomes stronger and holier. I will let him alone, and perhaps he will then go to sleep, and so I shall do him greater mischief by my quietness than by roaring at him." The devil is a cowardly spirit, and fears to meet the courageous in heart. Stretch out your hand, and lay hold upon the sword of the Spirit, and give him a believing thrust, and he will spread his dragon wings in dastard flight. A man had better go a hundred miles roundabout, over hedge and ditch, rather than meet the archenemy; yet, if any of you must meet him, be not dismayed, but face it out with him. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.'
Don't take Satan on by yourself, embrace Christ when facing the Devil.
Next week's reading
Commence 'All things for good' by Watson (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading the Introduction and Chapter 1 (The best things work for good to the godly).
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