"WHAT multitudes of prayers we have put up from the first moment when we learned to pray.
Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin.
He heard us.
But when He had blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we had more prayers for ourselves. We have had to pray for sanctifying grace, for constraining and restraining grace; we have been led to crave for a fresh assurance of faith, for the comfortable
-- application of the promise,
--for deliverance in the hour of temptation,
--for help in the time of duty,
--and for succour in the day of trial.
We have been compelled to go to God for our souls, as constant
beggars asking for everything. Bear witness, children of God, you have never been able to get anything for your souls elsewhere.
All the bread your soul has eaten has come down from heaven, and all the water of which it has drank has flowed from the living rock—Christ Jesus the Lord.
Your wants were innumerable,---He has heard you in the day of trouble, has strengthened you, and helped you, even when you dishonored Him by trembling and doubting at the mercy-seat. Remember this, and let it fill your heart with gratitude to God, who has thus graciously heard your poor weak prayers."
Charles Spurgeon
