Read these words of Charles Spurgeon, and approach God today with bold faith and, in Spurgeon’s words, “enlarged expectations”:
We do not come in prayer, as it were, only to God’s poorhouse where He dispenses His favors to the poor, nor do we come to the back door of the house of mercy to receive the broken scraps, though that would be more than we deserve; to eat the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table is more than we could claim. But, when we pray, we are standing in the palace on the glittering floor of the great King’s own reception room, and thus we are placed upon a vantage ground.
In prayer we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that very throne to which our prayers ascend. And should we come there with stunted requests and narrow and contracted faith? No, it does not become a King to be giving away pennies and nickels; He distributes pieces of gold. He scatters not, as poor men must, scraps of bread and broken meat, but He makes a feast of fat things, of fat things full of marrow, of wines well refined.
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Spurgeon, Charles H.. Power in Prayer (p. 88). Whitaker House. Kindle Edition.
