Adopted by God the Father

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Our Father in heaven, it is an intense joy to us to call you by that endearing name."

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SpurgeonBooks
February 03, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father in heaven, it is an intense joy to us to call you by that endearing name, for it is no mere empty title. We feel the spirit of adoption in us “whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). We feel the nature of God in us, which has been given us by the Spirit of God, the quickening, the renewal, being born again to a living hope.

Lord, we thank you, that we are your children by regeneration as well as by adoption, that we have been made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust. And we revel in the thought that it is given to us now to become the sons of God, any who believe in the name of Jesus, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.” (Matthew 7:11)

The point is, not only that God gives, but that he knows how to give. If he were always to give according to our prayers, it might be very injurious to us. He might give us that with which we could do hurt, as when a father should put a stone into a boy’s hand; or he might give us that which might do us hurt, as if a father were to give his child a serpent.

God will do neither of these things; but he will answer us in discretion, and with prudence will he fulfill our desires. You know how to give to your children; how much more shall your infinitely-wise Father, who from heaven sees all the surroundings of men, give good things to them that ask him?

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Bilala of Chad.

The Bilala live in villages, ruled by a local chief and elders, who help settle disputes and navigate relationships with outsiders.

Pray that the gospel would spread to every Bilala village and that village elders would be open to missionaries.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Because God is a Father full of gentleness and tenderness, sin against him is exceedingly sinful.” — Charles Spurgeon