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This tab contains a daily devotion from the pen and heart of Charles H. Spurgeon. We entitled it Sword and Trowel but these devotions are culled from a variety of Spurgeon publications.
Sword and the Trowel was the monthly magazine edited by Charles Spurgeon who was known as the "Prince of Preachers." He was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. Spurgeon was a prolific author of sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns.
Morning and Evening: a further compilation of devotional readings by Spurgeon.
Faith's Cheque Book: Precious Promises Arranged for Daily Use by Spurgeon.
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March 26, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, devotional, prayer
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.(Philippians 4:6-7)No care but all prayer. No anxiety but much joyful communion with God. ...
Keep ReadingMarch 20, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, faith, devotional
David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.(1 Samuel 17:37) This is not a promise if we consider only the words, but it is truly so as to its sense; for David spoke a word which the Lord endorsed by making it true. ...
Keep ReadingMarch 11, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, devotional, peace
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. (Philippians 4:9) It is well when a man can with advantage be so minutely copied as Paul might have been. Oh, for grace to imitate him this day and every day!...
Keep ReadingMarch 5, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, devotional, giving
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in, secret himself shall regard thee openly. (Matthew 6:3-4) No promise is made to those who give to the poor to be seen of men. They have their reward at once and cannot expect to be paid twice....
Keep ReadingMarch 5, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Category: Devotional | Tags: devotional, seek, Spurgeon, God first
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33) See how the Bible opens: "In the beginning God." Let your life open in the same way. Seek with your whole soul, first and foremost, the kingdom of God, as the place of your citizenship, and His righteousness as the character of your life....
Keep ReadingFebruary 20, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: fellowship, Spurgeon, devotional
lf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (John 15:7)Of necessity we must be in Christ to live unto Him .....
Keep ReadingFebruary 13, 2020 by Church Office | Tags: Spurgeon, devotional, God, wrath, longsuffering
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man. (Hosea 11:9) The Lord thus makes known His sparing mercies. It may be that the reader is now under heavy displeasure, and everything threatens his speedy doom. ...
Keep ReadingFebruary 5, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, devotional, purge, gold, refined
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zechariah 13:9)...
Keep ReadingJanuary 29, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: Spurgeon, justice, devotional
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. (Exodus 12:13)My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the Lord's sight of it which secures my safety. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 23, 2020 by Charles Spurgeon | Tags: devotional, fear, Spurgeon
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. (Numbers 23:23) How this should cut up root and branch all silly, superstitious fears! Even if there were any truth in witchcraft and omens, they could not affect the people of the Lord. Those whom God blessed, devils cannot curse....
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