Breathe on us, Holy Spirit

🛐 Daily Prayer: "This is the crown and glory of life: to adore and worship the life-giver from whom all good things come."

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SpurgeonBooks
November 17, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the Holy Spirit. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Glorious God the Holy Spirit, it is the flower of our being to worship you. This is the crown and glory of life: to adore and worship the life-giver from whom all good things come. Worship has often been to us as a bath in heavenly pleasure, and we have come out of it refreshed and comforted, blessed, and filled with heavenly delight.

We long for the Holy Spirit’s power to help us in prayer now! Breathe upon us, divine Spirit, and let that breath cause us to forget the world, but bring us into the fullest life in the contemplation of God and heaven. Blessed God, Father, Son, and Spirit, our whole spirit would revere you. Give us such a clear knowledge of your goodness, that we might not be overawed with your greatness.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Therefore I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, ‘Jesus is cursed,’ and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:3)

In church services in Corinth, anyone who wanted to talk, would talk. I supposed that there were some people who even spoke blasphemy. They professed to be under the guidance of the Spirit of God, and yet they stood up and called Jesus accursed. Where there is no rule nor order, there is pretty sure to be something very mischievous before long. Paul gives them to understand that this kind of talk could not go unrebuked. If a man really knows Jesus as his Lord, and he declares that truth, then you may fully accept it as being in harmony with the teaching of the Spirit of God.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Muhamasheen in Yemen.

The Muhamasheen is an ethnic group of 1.3 million people. They are almost entirely Muslim, with no known Christians among them. As far as we know, there are no Christians among them or churches they could attend. They will not hear the gospel unless people bring it from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Muhamasheen.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

This week, the newsletter is focusing on God the Holy Spirit. If you want to learn more about God the Holy Spirit, a great book is Rediscovering the Holy Spirit: God’s Perfecting Presence in Creation, Redemption, and Everyday Life by Michael Horton.

This book unpacks the Holy Spirit’s work throughout the Bible and in our lives today. It is thoroughly biblical and practical.

Knowing and loving the Holy Spirit is a crucial part of the Christian life. I know this book will be a helpful tool as you worship God the Holy Spirit — I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Never call the Holy Spirit 'it.' Worship him, love him, and trust him with confidence.” — Charles Spurgeon