Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your desire to spend more and more quality time with Jesus Christ is itself a token of His grace at work within you, for no heart longs for fellowship with Him unless He has first drawn it. It is a blessed prayer you have offered, and we join our hearts with yours in presenting it to the Heavenly Father in the Name of Jesus Christ.
There is no richer privilege afforded to a believer than fellowship with Christ. Our religion is not a mere creed or outward observance, but a living communion with its great Founder. There is a communion of faith and a communion of conversation, for in prayer we talk with God, and when we pray in faith Christ talks with us. He tells us of His love, and we tell Him of our wants and sorrows and dangers, and He answers with promises of His shield and keeping. To be much in prayer is to hold much fellowship with Jesus Christ Himself, the personal, living, loving Jesus who is the essence of His own work and the soul of His own salvation.
Remember that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. He who met His disciples by the sea and said, Come and break your fast, still invites His people to feast with Him. A meal with Jesus strengthens the soul for its warfare and its work. Many a battle is lost because the soldier is not nourished, and many a weary night of fruitless toil is endured while Jesus stands near unrecognized. But a sitting silently at His feet is of more worth than all the clatter of anxious service, and communion with Him teaches a reverence which words cannot express.
Follow then the example of our Lord who rose up a great while before day and went out into a desert place to pray. He who was ever in the spirit of prayer still sought His special time and place to speak with the Father face to face, putting prayer first of all. So let us seek Him early and seek Him often, opening the Book which is precious because it has to do with Him, and keeping His day and His ordinances with a heart that looks beyond them to Jesus Christ Himself.
Let us pray together.
Heavenly Father, we thank You that You have called us into the fellowship of Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, into partnership with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Grant to this dear soul, and to each of us, a growing hunger for Your presence. Help us to redeem time from lesser things and to give our best hours to communion with Christ. Teach us to look unto Jesus and to live by faith in Him, to come and break our fast with Him and to sup with Him as He knocks at the door of our hearts. Keep us from a mechanical religion that never touches the person of Christ, and bring us into that real contact where virtue flows from Him to us. Make our lives hid with Christ in God, that when Christ who is our life shall appear, we may appear with Him in glory. Draw us nearer day by day, that we may know Him more and love Him more, and find our strength and victory in Jesus Christ Himself. This we ask in the precious and prevailing Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
There is no richer privilege afforded to a believer than fellowship with Christ. Our religion is not a mere creed or outward observance, but a living communion with its great Founder. There is a communion of faith and a communion of conversation, for in prayer we talk with God, and when we pray in faith Christ talks with us. He tells us of His love, and we tell Him of our wants and sorrows and dangers, and He answers with promises of His shield and keeping. To be much in prayer is to hold much fellowship with Jesus Christ Himself, the personal, living, loving Jesus who is the essence of His own work and the soul of His own salvation.
Remember that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. He who met His disciples by the sea and said, Come and break your fast, still invites His people to feast with Him. A meal with Jesus strengthens the soul for its warfare and its work. Many a battle is lost because the soldier is not nourished, and many a weary night of fruitless toil is endured while Jesus stands near unrecognized. But a sitting silently at His feet is of more worth than all the clatter of anxious service, and communion with Him teaches a reverence which words cannot express.
Follow then the example of our Lord who rose up a great while before day and went out into a desert place to pray. He who was ever in the spirit of prayer still sought His special time and place to speak with the Father face to face, putting prayer first of all. So let us seek Him early and seek Him often, opening the Book which is precious because it has to do with Him, and keeping His day and His ordinances with a heart that looks beyond them to Jesus Christ Himself.
Let us pray together.
Heavenly Father, we thank You that You have called us into the fellowship of Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, into partnership with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Grant to this dear soul, and to each of us, a growing hunger for Your presence. Help us to redeem time from lesser things and to give our best hours to communion with Christ. Teach us to look unto Jesus and to live by faith in Him, to come and break our fast with Him and to sup with Him as He knocks at the door of our hearts. Keep us from a mechanical religion that never touches the person of Christ, and bring us into that real contact where virtue flows from Him to us. Make our lives hid with Christ in God, that when Christ who is our life shall appear, we may appear with Him in glory. Draw us nearer day by day, that we may know Him more and love Him more, and find our strength and victory in Jesus Christ Himself. This we ask in the precious and prevailing Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. 
