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Had a great email from a reader of my blog in Asia which I reproduce with permission in its entirety:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a faithful reader of your blog and a missionary in China. Thanks for being a place to go over the last couple years as God has increased my desire to \u201chave it all<\/a>\u201c. I\u2019ve learned a lot through some of your posts and links to other Reformed Charismatics. I was blessed by the Spurgeon quote you posted a few days ago and wanted to share another quote that I read this week from Spurgeon. Spurgeon never fails to shock and inspire me with the things he says about seeking God. This is from a sermon on 1 Kings 9:2-3 and God\u2019s second appearance to Solomon:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what level of spiritual maturity we are on, we need renewed appearances, fresh manifestations, new visitations from on high. While it is right to thank God for the past and look back with joy to His visits to you in your early days as a believer, I encourage you to seek God for special visitations of His presence. I do not mean to minimize our daily walk in the light of His countenance, but consider that though the ocean has its high tides twice every day, yet it also has its spring tides. The sun shines whether we see it or not, even through our winter\u2019s fog, and yet it has its summer brightness. If we walk with God constantly, there are special seasons when He opens the very secret of His heart to us and manifests Himself to us \u2013 not only as He does not to the world but also as He does not at all times to His own favored ones. Not every day in a palace is a banqueting day, and not all days with God are so clear and glorious as certain special sabbaths of the soul in which the Lord unveils His glory. Happy are we if we have once beheld His face, but happier still if He comes to us again in the fullness of favor.<\/p>\n

I commend you to be seeking God\u2019s second appearances. We should be crying to God most pleadingly that He would speak to us a second time. We do not need a reconversion, as some assert. If the Lord has kept us steadfast in His fear, we are already possessors of what some call the higher life. This we are privileged to enjoy from the first hour of our spiritual life. We do not need to be converted again, but we do need the windows of heaven to be opened again and again over our heads. We need the Holy Spirit to be given again as at Pentecost and that we should renew our youth like the eagles, to run without weariness and walk without fainting. May the Lord fulfill to His people His blessing upon Solomon! \u2018That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.'\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 C.H. Spurgeon, Essential Points in Prayer, The Power of Prayer in a Believer\u2019s Life ed. Robert Hall, Emerald Books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a great email from a reader of my blog in Asia which I reproduce with permission in its entirety: I\u2019m a faithful reader of your blog and a missionary in China. Thanks for being a place to go over the last couple years as God has increased my desire to \u201chave it all\u201c. 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