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🛐 Daily Prayer: "We thank you for your mercy, that many of us are spared to do service for you, notwithstanding many infirmities."

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SpurgeonBooks
August 04, 2025

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It’s back to school week at Pray with Spurgeon! This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on education and the next generation. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We thank you for your mercy, that many of us are spared to do service for you, notwithstanding many infirmities. We bless you for others who, having gone from us, have been brought back again; for the many Sunday School teachers among us; and ask, that all may be anointed with fresh oil, that every working or suffering brother and sister may receive fresh grace this day; that this may be a time of the trimming of lamps, that all may shine brightly to the praise of your grace.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past— things we have heard and known and that our ancestors have passed down to us.” (Psalm 78:2–3)

Truth, endeared to us by its fond associations with godly parents and venerable friends, deserves of us our best exertions to preserve and propagate it. Our fathers told us, we heard them, and we know personally what they taught; it remains for us in our turn to hand it on. The more of parental teaching the better; ministers and Sabbath-school teachers were never meant to be substitutes for mothers’ tears and fathers’ prayers.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Chadong of China.

This group of 23,000 people most likely has never heard the gospel and has no Christians among them. There is no church they could attend (none speak their language) and they have probably never heard the name of Jesus.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Chadong.

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Making the Bible the center of your school year

This week, Pray with Spurgeon will be focusing on prayers that the next generation would put their hope in God. If you’re a parent, you have an important role in spreading the gospel to your kids. How will you make the Bible the center of your school year?

The fall is a “reset” for many families. As kids go back to school and more routine comes back into our lives, we have an opportunity to evaluate our current habits and cultivate new ones.

I really want to challenge parents — make family devotions a DAILY habit this school year.

To help you, I’ve created a series of family devotionals to help you dive into God’s Word with your kids — God Centered Family. It’s all about helping you lead your kids to be lifelong followers of Jesus.

Of all the things your kids could learn this year, God’s Word is the most important — I hope you’ll use God Centered Family to teach it with confidence.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Be ready to tell your children what the gospel means.” — Charles Spurgeon