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Without A Wrinkle These are taken from Spurgeon's Morning And Evening Devotional . Note: Here, Spurgeon refers to perfection in the sense of being sinless (which we will be made once we are glorified and our old nature is completely removed. In the Lord's eyes, we are accepted in the Beloved, for Christ's blood has washed all our sin away and we have been clothed with His righteousness. The Father sees us sinless through the blood of His Son. The usual Bible sense of being perfect (ie. being mature as believers) is not in view in these two devotionals, but they are still very much worth reading. Highlighted emphasis by me. Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Morning, January 28...

We all face the storms of life - sometimes are battered pretty fiercely. It is hard enough when it a personal storm we are going through, but what happens when you have loved ones that are in situations beyond your control? Then it is time to seek the Lord in prayer until He answers, and we see His love break through our storms. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer moves the arm that moves the world." Love Broke Through I left my shelter, wandered out into harm; My faith grew so weak in the path of the storm. A trial of my choosing; no one else to blame; But His love broke through when I called on His name. Chorus: Love broke through the clouds, Love scattered the rain; God’s love brought healing in the midst of my pain. When the wind and the waves were all I could view, Jesus calmed the storm, and His love broke through. The wind rose so sudden, the thunder now roared; I was all but sinking; my faith came unmoored. A trial to test me – how could I survive? Love broke through and show...

  Mr. Spurgeon's Account of his Conversion and Early Preaching I will tell you how I myself was brought to the knowledge of the truth. It may happen the telling of that will bring someone else to Christ. It pleased God in my childhood to convince me of my sin. I lived a miserable creature, finding no hope, no comfort, thinking that surely God would never save me. At last the worst came to the worst - I was miserable; I could do scarcely anything. My heart was broken in pieces. Six months did I pray - prayed agonizingly with all my heart, and never had an answer. I resolved that, in the town where I lived, I would visit every place of worship in order to find out the way of salvation. I felt I was willing to do anything and be anything if God would only forgive me. I set off, determined to go round to all the chapels, and I went to all the places of worship; and though I dearly venerate the men that occupy those pulpits now, and did so then, I am bound to say that I never heard them...