A Prayer of Charles Haddon Spurgeon for the Salvation of Sinners! May His Prayer from the 19th Century Impact Your Heart To Be Turned To Christ for Eternal Salvation Today! Points to Ponder . . .

A rendering of Charles Haddon Spurgeon preaching. The one who prayed for sinners to be saved!

Today's reading is supplied to us from Dr. Michael AG Haykin's substack web page. Used by permission.

And Jesus said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” (Luke 10:2). O God, we would not speak to you from a distance nor stand at a distance from the burning mountain like trembling Israel.

No, we have not come to Mount Sinai but to Mount Zion. That is a place for holy joy and thankfulness, not for terror and bondage. We bless your name, O Lord! We have learned to call you “our Father who is in heaven” [Matt. 6:9]. We do have reverence, for you are in heaven, but we have sweet familiarity, for you are our Father.

O God, bless our efforts to evangelize our neighbours. Give us a greater interest in this work so that there would be plenty of men and women who would gladly teach the young. Im­press this need upon your people right now, Lord. Move men who have the gifts and ability to preach the gospel. Many people live in places where there is no gospel preaching near them. Lord, make them preach themselves. Will you move some people with such power that they cannot keep quiet about the gospel? Would you see that any attempts—either personally or supporting one who goes—to succeed in bringing the gospel into spiritually dark neighborhoods so that people may know the truth?

O Lord, stir up those who live in this vast city. Arouse us to the spiritual destitution of the masses. O God, help us by some means—any means, by every means!—to get at the ears of people for Christ’s sake so that we may reach their hearts. We do send up a very loud and impassioned cry to you on behalf of the millions that enter no place of Christian worship but violate its sanctity and despise its blessed message with their absence. Lord, wake up our city, we beg you! Send us another Jonah! Send us another John the Baptist! Oh, that the Christ himself would send multitudes of labourers into this ready harvest, because the harvest truly is plentiful, but there are few laborers. O God, save this city. Save this country. Save all countries! Let your kingdom come, and may every knee bow and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Our most earnest prayers go up to heaven to you now for great sinners, for men and women who are polluted and depraved by the filthiest of sins. With sovereign mercy, make a raid among them. Come and capture some of these sinners so that they may become great lovers of the one who will surely forgive them. Make them great champions for the cross.

Above all, Holy Spirit, descend in more power. God, would you flood the land until there are streams of righteousness? Is there not a promise that you “will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground” [Isa. 44:3]? Lord, make your people pray. Stir up the church to greater prayerfulness. Now, as you have commanded, we pray for the people among whom we live. We pray for those in authority, that you would grant a blessing to all judges and rulers, as well as the poor and lowest of the low. Lord, bless all the people. Let the people praise you, O God! Yes. Let the people praise you for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen and amen.”