A prayer for the end of the year

šŸ› Daily Prayer: "Whatever this year may have been, we lift up the song of grateful praise, raise another stone of help to record the loving-kindness of our God."

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SpurgeonBooks
December 30, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We must especially make mention of the goodness of the Lord during another year. Each believer here has walked a different pathway; to some it has been a very smooth road, to others a very rough climb; to some a deep descent into the valley of sorrow and humiliation. But you have led your people on the right way. With all the twisting of the wilderness march, we are persuaded that when you lead us about, we still go the nearest way. You know best, and often to retreat is to advance, to be beaten back is to make surest headway. In the recollection of the whole year, we would again, whatever this year may have been, lift up the song of grateful praise, raise another stone of help to record the loving-kindness of our God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

ā€œAnd the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. Since there was no more manna for the Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan that year.ā€ (Joshua 5:12)

Israelā€™s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, or howling wildernesses; they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey and they ate the old corn of the land.

Perhaps this year, beloved Christian reader, this may be your case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be in active exercise, it will yield unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest which remains for the people of God, is a wonderful hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the good land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us. Let us banish every fearful thought, and rejoice with exceeding great joy, in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be with the Lord forever.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, weā€™re praying for the Abkhaz of Turkey.

The Abkhaz language is one of the most complex languages spoken today. Missionaries going to the Abkhaz will have a difficult task ahead of them, but it is worth it.

Pray that God would give endurance to Christians learning the Abkhaz language.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Making New Yearā€™s Resolutions? Understand how Godā€™s grace helps you grow

As you make plans to fight sin, do not slide into self-reliance. God saved you by grace, and he is going to help you grow by grace too.

We ask God to help us grow in holiness, because we know that Godā€™s grace doesnā€™t just save us from sin, it also gives us the power that we need to slay sin. The work of growing in godliness is a work of cooperation between us and Godā€™s grace.

One of my all-time favorite books is The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges. This book explains how Godā€™s grace empowers Christians to slay sin and grow in godliness. It is one of the helpful, practical, and encouraging books that I have ever read! If you want to grow in godliness this year, start with The Discipline of Grace.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

ā€œThe past year is another year of my Lord's faithfulness and love.ā€ ā€” Charles Spurgeon