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Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.” (1 Peter 1:18–19)

We are told in Leviticus that “it is the blood with the life that makes atonement” (17:11). God never forgave sin apart from blood under the law. This stood as a constant law: “Apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22). There is no other plan by which sinners can be made at one with God except by Jesus’ precious blood. I may make sacrifices; I may mortify my body; I may be baptized; I may receive sacraments; I may pray until my knees grow hard with kneeling; I may read devout words until I know them by heart; I may celebrate masses; I may worship in one language or in fifty languages. But I can never be at one with God except by blood, and that blood, “the precious blood of Christ.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Faifi of Saudi Arabia.

Becoming a Christian in Saudi Arabia will be costly. Converts will usually be disowned by their families and rejected by society.

Pray that God would save his people in Saudi Arabia, even though it will be costly.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

For married women who are serious about discipleship

Your marriage is a big part of your life in Christ. As we live so closely and intimately with another sinner, our own sins are revealed. If you are a wife, God has given us a unique calling to honor him as a wife. However, a lot of women I know WANT to grow as a wife but they aren’t sure how. Often, these women settle for mere external changes instead of lasting growth.

That’s why I created The God Centered Wife One-Year Journal, an interactive resource for women to use to create a grace-saturated, biblical plan to strengthen their marriages.

Throughout the journal, you’ll find 52 blank weekly pages filled with prompts about your life, marriage, and husband. You’ll be encouraged to think about what about your marriage is hard right now (and why) and cast those cares on to the Lord.

If you’re a bullet journal fan, each week also comes with a dotted grid page for your to-do list, calendar, or anything else.

This journal (as well as the men’s edition for your husband) is available on Amazon. I hope you’ll pick up a copy for yourself, your husband, and a few more for married couples that you know.

• The God Centered Wife One-Year Journal

• The God Centered Husband One-Year Journal