From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled “Golden Vials Full of Odors,” delivered May 19, 1872.
The prayers which the Lord accepts are not the chantings of functionaries, the litanies of priests, or the devout tones of a mechanical service; they must be the prayers of saints: in the life, the character, the soul, the sweetness lies — the acceptance comes not unless they be the prayers of saints.
And who are the saints? They are men whom the Lord has made holy by the power of his Spirit, whose nature he has purified, whom he has washed in the precious blood of Jesus, and so sanctified unto himself, whom he has filled with his Spirit, and so set apart to his worship. These persons loving him, praising him, bowing before him with solemn awe, lifting their whole Souls up in adoring love — these are they who can offer sweet incense; their thoughts, their desires, their longings, their confessions, their pleadings, their praises — these are sweet to God: this is music to him, this is perfume to his heart, delightful to his infinite mind, pleasant to his sacred spirit, for God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, and after no other fashion is a spiritual God to be worshipped.
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Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Now that the gospel is required to be preached to every creature, to every human creature, it is also required that every human creature praise the Lord. What have we our breath, our spirit, for?, but to spend it in praising God; and how can we spend it better? Praise Him according to His excellent greatness according to the multitude of His magnificence; not that our praises can bear any proportion to God’s greatness, for it is infinite, but since he is greater than we can express or conceive, we must raise our conceptions and expressions to the highest degree we can attain to. Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God. We cannot speak hyperbolically of God; all the danger is of saying too little and therefore, when we have done our utmost, we must acknowledge that we have praised Him in consideration of, yet not in proportion to, His excellent greatness.
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Simon
Amen and Amen !!!
Welcome all the way from the UK !!!
God bless
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