DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for  June  1st A.D. 2026  written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

PRAYER 21, June  1st  Part 2 of 8    BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE

ANECDOTE 299  June  1st   EXALTATION IN PRAYER.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK June  1st  GOD’S PROMISE KEEPS [Endures}

MORNING: June  1st  "THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY."
—Genesis 1:5

EVENING: June 1st    "HE WILL MAKE HER WILDERNESS LIKE EDEN. "  —Isaiah 51:3

A SINNER'S PRAYER  June  1st                             

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PRAYER 21, June  1st   Part 2 of 8   BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE

 

Now, Lord, we confess our guilt before Thee with tenderness of heart, and we pray Thee seal home [bring home] to every believer here that full and free, that perfect and irreversible charter of forgiveness which Thou gavest [You gave] to all them that put their trust in Jesus Christ.

Lord! Thou hast [You have] said it:

 

“If we confess our sins, Thou art merciful and just to forgive us our sins and to save us from all unrighteousness.”

 

There is the sin confessed: there is the ransom accepted: we therefore know we have peace with God, and we bless that glorious one who hath come “to finish transgression, to make an end of sin,”to bring in everlasting righteousness, which righteousness by faith we take unto ourselves and Thou dost impute [reckon through substitutionary atonement] unto us.

 

Now, Lord, wilt Thou be pleased to cause all Thy children’s hearts to dance within them for joy? Oh! help Thy people to come to Jesus again today. May we be looking unto Him today as we did at the first. May we never take off our eyes from His Divine person, from His infinite merit, from His finished work, from His living power, or from the expectancy of His speedy coming to “judge the world in righteousness and the people with His truth.” 

 

[We praise You for the remarkable gift of salvation and forgiveness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.] 

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ANECDOTE 299. June  1st   EXALTATION IN PRAYER.

 

I was much struck the other evening at a prayer meeting, by the prayer of one of our brethren, which came home to [touched] my heart. When he prayed, he said, “Lord, give me Mary’s place, Oh! that I might, with Mary sit For ever at my Master’s feet, And learn of him.”

 

He prayed that he might have her part, and always sit at the feet of Jesus. But, by and by, the good man kindled [fired] up in his prayer, and said,

“No, my Master, I have not asked enough of thee. Mary’s place is too low for me, if I may have a better.

 

Lift me up higher, Lord; give me John’s place.

Oh ! that I might, with favored John, Forever lean my head upon The bosom of my Lord.” Then again he pleaded for that higher degree of communion between the soul and Christ.

 

“Surely,” thought I, “now you have asked enough.” But, suddenly rising up to another flight on the wings of communion, like the eagle taking its last soar into the skies, he said,

 

“No, Lord, John’s place doth not suffice me. Thou hast lifted me from thy feet to thy bosom now from thy bosom to thy lips.” Then, quoting the words of the spouse,

 

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine” he sweetly paraphrased it thus,

 

“Let the lip of my petitioning meet the lip of thy benediction ; let the lip of my praise met the lip of thy acceptance; so shall the kiss be consummated and my joy be complete.”

 

Aye, and when we are favored to go through these stages of fellowship; to go from the foot to the bosom, from the bosom to the lip; to go from the mere learner and to be a friend and companion ; and then to go higher still to be lifted up and to feel our fellow ship with Christ, by standing as high as he does, and being on his lip; it is there the child of God, insensibly almost, [just barely felt] receives strength, and, 

like Elijah smitten by the angel, he rises up and finds his meat baked upon the coals, and eats thereof, and lives upon it for forty days to come.

 

Precious mode of feeding this! 

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK June 1st GOD’S PROMISE KEEPS [Never Ends]

  by C.H. Spurgeon 1834 –1892

-CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS: FOR THOU SHALT [SHALL] FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS-   Ecclesiastes 11:1

 

-ECHA tu pan sobre las aguas; que despues de muchos dias lo hallarás- Eclesiastes 11:1

 

We must not expect to see an immediate reward for all the good we do; nor must we always confine our efforts to places and persons which seem likely to yield us a recompense for our labors.

The Egyptian casts [throws] his seed upon the waters of the Nile, where it might seem a sheer waste of corn. But in due time the flood subsides, the rice or other grain sinks into the fertile mud, and rapidly a harvest is produced.

 

Let us today do good to the unthankful and the evil. Let us teach the careless and the obstinate. Unlikely [unexpectedly] waters may cover hopeful soil.

 

Nowhere shall our labor be in vain in the Lord.

 

It is ours to cast [throw]  our bread upon the waters [to broadcast the good news of Jesus] ; it remains with God to fulfill the promise,

 

 -Thou shalt [you shall] find it- 

 

 He will not let His promise fail. His good word which we have spoken shall live, shall be found, shall be found by us. Perhaps not just yet, but some day

 

we shall reap what we have sown.

 

We must exercise our patience; for perhaps the Lord may exercise it. 

 

 -After many days-, says the Scripture, and in many instances those days run into months and years, and yet 

 

the Word stands true.

 

God’s promise will keep; let us mind [pay attention] that we keep the precept [teaching], and keep [obey] it this day [today].

 

Prayer: Thank you, Lord Jesus, that God is always faithful to His word, and He helps us to plant seeds of faith everywhere, so that in due time we may find the blessed increase. I claim this promise in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for His sake, Amen.

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MORNING June 1st   "THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY."
—Genesis 1:5

 

–Y fue la tarde [noche] y la mañana un [el primer] día —Génesis 1:5

 

WAS it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day?

Then little wonder if I also have changes in my circumstances 

 

from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity.

 

It will not always be the blaze of noon in concerns of my soul ; I must expect at seasons to mourn the absence of my former joys, and 

 

seek my Beloved in the night.

 

Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight.

 

It is one of the arrangements of Divine providence that day and night will not cease either in the spiritual or natural creation until we reach the land of which it is written,

 

"there is no night [darkness] there."

 

What our heavenly Father ordains is wise and good.

 

What, then, my soul, is it best for you to do? Learn first to be content with this divine order, and

be willing, with Job, to receive evil from the hand of the Lord as well as good.

 

Study next, to make the outgoings of the morning and the evening to rejoice. Praise the Lord for the sun of joy when it rises, and for the gloom of evening as it falls.

There is beauty both in sunrise and sunset, sing of it, and glorify the Lord.

 

Like the nightingale, pour forth your notes [Sing] at all hours.

 

Believe that the night is as useful as the day. The dews of grace fall heavily in the night of sorrow. The stars of promise shine forth gloriously amid the darkness of grief.

 

Continue your service under all changes. If in the day your watchword be labor, at night exchange it for watch. Every hour has its duty, so continue in your calling as the Lord's servant until He suddenly appears in His glory.

My soul, your evening of old age and death is drawing near, dread it not, for it is part of the day; and the Lord has said,

 

"I will cover him all the day long." 

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EVENING June 1st  "HE WILL MAKE HER WILDERNESS LIKE EDEN. " —Isaiah 51:3

 

—Tornará su desierto como paraíso —Isaías 51:3

 

ENVISION with me a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten thousand bleaching skeletons of wretched men who have expired in anguish, having lost their way in the pitiless waste. What an appalling sight! How horrible! A sea of sand without a bound, and without an oasis, a cheerless graveyard for a race forlorn [abandoned]!

 

But behold and wonder! Upon a sudden, up springing from the scorching sand I see a plant of renown, and as it grows it buds, the bud expands—it is a rose, and at its side a lily bows its modest head. Miracle of miracles, as the fragrance of those flowers is diffused, the wilderness is transformed into a fruitful field, and all around it blossoms exceedingly.

 

The glory of Lebanon is given unto it: the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. Call it not Sahara, call it Paradise.

Speak not of it any longer as the valley of the shadow of death, for where the skeletons lay bleaching in the sun, behold a resurrection is proclaimed, and up spring the dead, a mighty army, full of life immortal.

Jesus is that plant of renown, and His presence makes all things new. Nor is the wonder less in each individual's salvation.

Yonder [over there] I behold you, dear reader, cast out, an infant, un-swathed [with no blanket], unwashed, defiled with your own blood, left to be food for beasts of prey. 

But a jewel [a compassionate heart of flesh] has been thrown into your bosom by a divine hand, and for its sake you have been pitied and tended [cared for] by divine providence; you are washed and cleansed from your defilement; you are adopted into heaven's family; the fair seal of love is on your forehead, and the ring of faithfulness is on your hand

—you are now a prince unto God, though once an orphan, cast away.

Exceedingly prize [esteem] the matchless power and grace that changes deserts into gardens, and makes the barren heart to sing for joy.