At the Master's Feet : A Daily Devotional

by Compiled by Audie G. Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780310251965
• ISBN10: 0310251966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

At age twenty-two, Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the most popular preacher of his day. The "Prince of Preachers" shared his pulpit with Dwight L. Moody, Hudson Taylor, and George Mueller, and was responsible for leading Oswald Chambers to Christ. His messages touched countless hearts and lives, and thousands came to Christ under his evangelistic influence. Spurgeon helped to start more than forty churches and was a major influence on Christian leaders and lay persons. At the Master's Feet is a treasury of 366 devotions that offer a sampling of the very best of Charles Spurgeon, chosen with the modern reader's spiritual needs in mind. It also contains a plan for reading the entire Bible through in a year. Each devotional includes a related scripture in the NIV. These classic writings will direct you on a daily journey into a deeper and more thoughtful faith in Jesus Christ.

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At the Master’s FeetCopyright © 2005 by The Zondervan CorporationRequests for information should be addressed to:Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataSpurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon), 1834–1892.At the Master’s feet : a daily devotional from the best of CharlesSpurgeon / compiled by Audie G. Lewis.p. cm.ISBN-13: 978-0-310-25196-5 (hardcover)ISBN-10: 0-310-25196-6 (hardcover)1. Devotional calendars—Baptists. 2. Bible—Meditations.I. Lewis, Audie G. II. Title.BV4811.S65 2005242'.2—dc222005013743This edition printed on acid-free paper.All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HolyBible: New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 byInternational Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rightsreserved.Scriptures marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.The material for this book has been excerpted from The New Library ofSpurgeon’s Sermons, a twenty-volume set of The Best of Spurgeon for theFirst Time Available Arranged According to Subject. Published by Zondervan,Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1958–1963.This edition has been updated and Americanized.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic,mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotationsin printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.Interior design by Beth ShagenePrinted in the United States of America05 06 07 08 09 10 /?DCI/ 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1ForewordCharles H. Spurgeon preached to upwards of ten million peopleduring his forty-plus years of ministry before joining his Lord in1892. Thousands came to Christ under his evangelistic influencewhile he served as the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel andthe Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England. Without theaid of microphones or modern technologies, Charles Spurgeonpastored a flock of more than six thousand members, the largestsingle congregation known to exist prior to his ministry. Duringthis same period he helped to start more than forty other churchesand oversaw the Pastor’s College and the Stockwell Orphanage.During his lifetime, he was a major influence on the lives of manygreat Christian leaders including Dwight Moody, Hudson Taylor,George Mueller, and Oswald Chambers. Spurgeon’s writingshave sold millions worldwide including a continual republicationof more than two thousand of his best sermons. Although he isoften referred to as the “Prince of Preachers,” his words of Godgiveninsight have blessed many more laypeople than pastors.Our hope in putting this devotional together is that many,many more laypeople, pastors, and future Christians will beencouraged and strengthened by these spiritual insights that havebeen gathered from the best of the best of Charles Spurgeon’stimeless sermons. Also included is an additional dailyScripture reference at the bottom of each page that correspondsto either an Old Testament or a New Testament book. If this additionalreading is followed, it will allow the reader to completelyread through the entire Bible in one year. May God continue tobless each and every reader as they sit with this great pastor at theMaster’s feet!IntroductionAs I look back upon my own history, little did I dream when firstI opened my mouth for Christ, in a very humble way, that Ishould have the honor of bringing thousands to Jesus. Blessed,blessed be his name! He has the glory of it. But I cannot helpthinking that there must be some other lad here, such a one as Iwas, whom he may call by his grace to do service for him. WhenI had a letter sent to me by the deacons of the church at New ParkStreet to come up to London to preach, I sent it back by the nextpost, telling them that they had made a mistake, that I was a ladof nineteen years of age, happy among a very poor and lowlypeople in Cambridgeshire who loved me, and that I did not imaginethey could mean that I was to preach in London. But theyreturned it to me and said that they knew all about it and that Imust come. Ah, what a story it has been since then of the goodnessand loving-kindness of the Lord!CHARLES HADDON SPURGEONFROM THE SERMON “THE LAD’S LOAVES”Keep to the Word of GodNow the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians,for they received the message with great eagerness and examined theScriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.ACTS 17:11I commend scrupulous obedience to all of you, and especially tothose young people who have lately made a profession of theirfaith in Christ. Do not be as your fathers were, for the generationthat is now going off the stage neither reads its Bible nor cares toknow the Lord’s will. If people searched the Scriptures, we shouldfind them come together in union; but the least-read book in allthe world, in proportion to its circulation, is the Word of God. Itis distributed everywhere, but it is read scarcely anywhere withcare and attention and with a sincere resolve to follow its preceptsat all hazards. You come and listen to us, and we give you little bitstaken from it here and there, but you do not get a fair notion of itas a whole. How can you? Ministers make mistakes, and you followthem without inquiry. One elects this leader and another that,to the creation of varieties of opinions and even of sects, whichought not to be, and would not be if all stood fast by the standardof inspired truth. If the Bible were but read and prayed over,many errors would die a speedy death, and others would be sorelycrippled. Had that inspired Book been read in the past, manyerrors would never have arisen. Search you, then, the Book ofGod, I pray you; and whatever you find there, be sure to attendthereto. At all costs, keep to the Word of God.Through the Bible in One Year: Matthew 1–2January 1He Will Supply All Your NeedsAnd my God will meet all your needs accordingto his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.PHILIPPIANS 4:19If he will supply you, you will be supplied indeed, for God is infinitein capacity. He is infinitely wise as to the manner of hisactions, and infinitely powerful as to the acts themselves. Henever sleeps nor tires; he is never absent from any place but isalways ready to help. Your needs come, perhaps, at very unexpectedtimes; they may occur in the midnight of despondency orin the noonday of delight, but God is ever near to supply the surprisingneed. He is everywhere present and everywhere omnipotent,and he can supply all your needs, in every place, at everytime, to the fullest degree. Remember that “omnipotence has servantseverywhere” and that whenever God wishes to send youaid, he can do it without pausing to ask, “How shall it be done?”He has but to will it, and all the powers of heaven and earth aresubservient to your necessity. With such a Helper, what case haveyou to doubt?Through the Bible in One Year: Matthew 3–4January 2Priests unto the Most HighBut you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of himwho called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.1 PETER 2:9Such a one as Jesus in such a one as I am! The King of Glory in asinner’s bosom! This is a miracle of grace, yet the manner of it issimple enough. A humble, repenting faith opens the door, andJesus enters the heart at once. Love shuts the door with the handof penitence, and holy watchfulness keeps out intruders.

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