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“My People Pray for Me”: How Spurgeon Asked His Church to Pray for Him

“Brothers, pray for us.” So Paul wrote to the churches (Eph. 6:19, Col. 4:3, 1 Thess. 5:25, 2 Thess. 3:1). Though he was an apostle, he knew that he needed the prayers of the saints for his perseverance and the spread of the gospel. Likewise, all ministers today need the prayers of their people. This was a constant theme of Spurgeon’s ministry. Once, when asked by a group of American visitors about the secret of his success, he responded, “My people pray for me.”

But how were the members of the Metropolitan Tabernacle to pray for their pastor? During a prayer meeting in 1881, Spurgeon gave these three ways they could be praying for him.
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