Intercession: Delight In The Lord's Day

Delight in the Lord's Day

We thank Thee, Lord, for putting the Sabbath not at the end of the week, as once it was, as though we were to work six days to get one day's rest, but now we begin the week with rest. Thou givest us that rest not earned, but given. And with that rest we are to take in strength to do the six days' work: make it so to-day. May this be the market day of the week, and may we make good marketing. May Thy servants take in large stores. It is a port at which we call. May we victual the vessel well, and then go sailing over the six leagues of days with the provision Thou hast given to us to-day. The Lord grant it! And may Thy people be fed with the finest of the wheat, and go their way as men who have been to a festival, who sing for joy of heart. Look in mercy upon Thy Church at large. Revive Thy churches; Laodicean we fear they are. Come Lord, with a live coal from off the altar, and set Thy churches on a blaze again. Oh for the days of the Son of Man, times of refreshing! We would see millions converted to God. We would see the whole Church quickened to the fullest extent by the indwelling Spirit. Thou canst do it Lord. Do it for Thy name and glory's sake. Amen.