Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your soul cries "Hosanna!" and I am glad at the sound of it. Do you know what that ancient shout means? It is the prayer of a heart that knows its need, "Save, O save! Save us, O King!" Not merely a noise of praise but an urgent, humble, believing cry for salvation. You have taken it upon your lips, and better still, the Spirit has wrought it in your inmost being. There is no Hosanna without a sense of danger and no true delight until Christ enters the gates of the soul as once He rode into Jerusalem. Let every stone cry out if you hold your peace, but let your heart never cease its cry, "Save now, I beseech Thee, O Lord!"
And you beseech Him to send prosperity. What prosperity is this? If it be the prospering of His own work in your soul and in His church, you are praying after the very mind of God. The true prosperity of Zion is the salvation of sinners, the building up of the saints, the quiet yet irresistible advance of the kingdom of peace. To see the stony heart taken away and a heart of flesh given, that is prosperity. To behold the pierced Son drawing men to Himself and melting the hardest breast, that is unmitigated prosperity. Pray then with boldness, "Save, Lord, save!" and look for the answer not in coffers filling with gold but in hearts filling with grace. For it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, and in that bruised One the pleasure of the Lord prospers to the uttermost.
You have the confidence to keep your heart anchored fast to the Lord. That is well, for the heart is the citadel, and keeping it is the grand affair. And how can a poor vessel hold steady amid storms? Only by the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, holding the heart as a garrison holds a city. A full peace makes a full heart; an undivided peace makes an undivided heart. Let nothing draw you from the cross where the heart is both pierced and healed. Look there until every doubt dissolves, until gratitude makes you sing in the fire and shout Hosanna in the temple of your own spirit. That new heart He gave you will not shrink back if you keep it anchored in the wounds of Jesus.
So rejoice, for this is the day the Lord has made, a day of the Spirit's subduing power, a day when the deaf hear the Hosanna of the children and the dead in sin feel the life-pulse of the new creation. What you have heard in the Word you have also seen in your own experience; nothing shall ever shake one who rests on the immutable promise. Therefore, bind the sacrifice with cords to the altar's horn, and let your whole life sing, "Hosanna in the highest!"
And you beseech Him to send prosperity. What prosperity is this? If it be the prospering of His own work in your soul and in His church, you are praying after the very mind of God. The true prosperity of Zion is the salvation of sinners, the building up of the saints, the quiet yet irresistible advance of the kingdom of peace. To see the stony heart taken away and a heart of flesh given, that is prosperity. To behold the pierced Son drawing men to Himself and melting the hardest breast, that is unmitigated prosperity. Pray then with boldness, "Save, Lord, save!" and look for the answer not in coffers filling with gold but in hearts filling with grace. For it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, and in that bruised One the pleasure of the Lord prospers to the uttermost.
You have the confidence to keep your heart anchored fast to the Lord. That is well, for the heart is the citadel, and keeping it is the grand affair. And how can a poor vessel hold steady amid storms? Only by the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, holding the heart as a garrison holds a city. A full peace makes a full heart; an undivided peace makes an undivided heart. Let nothing draw you from the cross where the heart is both pierced and healed. Look there until every doubt dissolves, until gratitude makes you sing in the fire and shout Hosanna in the temple of your own spirit. That new heart He gave you will not shrink back if you keep it anchored in the wounds of Jesus.
So rejoice, for this is the day the Lord has made, a day of the Spirit's subduing power, a day when the deaf hear the Hosanna of the children and the dead in sin feel the life-pulse of the new creation. What you have heard in the Word you have also seen in your own experience; nothing shall ever shake one who rests on the immutable promise. Therefore, bind the sacrifice with cords to the altar's horn, and let your whole life sing, "Hosanna in the highest!"

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have.