Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

Thanks for praying with us this week. (We’ll be back on Monday!)

• This week, the newsletter focused on unanswered prayers. Read all the newsletters here.

• Next week, we’ll focus on schooling and education.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

God of Israel, God of Jesus Christ, our God forever and ever! Help us now by the sacred Spirit to approach you rightly with deepest reverence, but not with servile fear; with holiest boldness, but not with presumption. Teach us as children to speak to the Father, and yet as creatures to bow before our Maker.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Now he told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not give up.” (Luke 18:1)

Beggars must not be choosers either as to time, place, or form. We must not take delays in prayer for denial—God’s long-dated bills will be punctually honored; we must not allow Satan to shake our confidence in the God of truth by pointing to our unanswered prayers. We are dealing with a being whose years are without end, to whom one day is as a thousand years. Far be it from us to count him slack by measuring his doings by the standard of our little hour. Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers. They are not blown away by the wind; they are treasured in the king’s archives.

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