Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook
"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." - Psalm 73:24
FROM day to day and from year to year, my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe in vain. No good word of His has ever failed, and I am sure that none shall ever fall to the ground.
I put myself into his hand for guidance. I know not the way that I should choose: the Lord shall choose mine inheritance for me. I need counsel and advice, for my duties are intricate and my condition is involved. I seek to the Lord, as the High Priest of old looked to his Urim and Thummim. The counsel of the infallible God I seek, in preference to my own judgment or the advice of friends. Glorious Jehovah, thou shalt guide me!
Soon the end will come: a few more years, and I must depart out of this world unto the Father. My Lord will be near my bed. He will meet me at heaven's gate: He will welcome me to the gloryland. I shall not be a stranger in heaven: my own God and Father will receive me to its endless bliss.
WILL GUIDE ME HERE,
AND RECEIVE ME HEREAFTER.
AMEN.
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I pray that my faith will increase this coming year, I pray that my actions will speak loudly as well as my faith and the words the Lord shows me to speak. I pray that my diligence and my self-control will be upheld. I know the things that I should do and yet, some days I do not do them. I pray to have the boldness and the discipline to do those things I know I should do. I pray that the Lord give me grace to profess His son to those around me, that I will stand boldly in the line of fire if it comes to that. I pray to have the heart like C.H. Spurgeon and many other great Father's of the faith. To have an unwavering passion to do rightly in the sight of the Lord, and that I will not allow that passion to dwindle, but to thrive on the very promises of the Lord and fly on wings of eagles, proclaiming His name and living exactly how He would have me live. That is my prayer for next year. I love you, Lord. Agape.
"6. Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live." - Jonathan Edwards, 70 Resolutions.
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