Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the wisdom of God. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord, we have heard of some that can look back upon their lives with pleasure and satisfaction, but we wish to look nowhere but to you, our savior. You are our wisdom—our experience is not our wisdom. You are our righteousness—not our good deeds or gifts to the poor; You are our sanctification—not our prayers and watchings. You are everything to us and we are just nothing. We were nothing when you began with us, when we lay wallowing in the blood, cast out in death in the open field to perish. Then you said “Live,” and we lived by virtue of that word, and by that word of God shall men live, and so do we live.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Buy—and do not sell—truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.” (Proverbs 23:23)

This is very much the description of the genuine Christian at all times. He is surrounded by vendors of all sorts of things, beautifully got up and looking exceedingly like the true article. And the only way in which he will be able to pass through Vanity Fair safely is to keep to this—that he buys the truth—and if he adds to that the second advice of the text, and never sells it, he will, under divine guidance, find his way rightly to the skies.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Naru is a group of 15,000 people in China. They worship traditional ethnic religions and have never heard the name of Jesus.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Naru.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

How God is at work in your life this year (and right now!)

Making goals for the new year can be an incredible fruitful activity, but we need to remember that all of our efforts to improve ourselves are worthless without God’s help.

Recently, I’ve been really blessed reading How People Change by Paul Tripp and Timothy Lane. I’ve heard about this book for years but only recently read it myself for the first time.

The goal of this book is to solve “the gospel gap.” We believe that Christ’s work has forgiven our past sins and will give us hope in the future, but we’re often confused about how a relationship with Jesus will actually change our life here and now.

This book offers an incredibly hopeful, practical, and biblical guide for growing in godliness and quitting sin. I know it will bless you this year, so I hope you’ll grab a copy and read with me.

Buy How People Change:

• Amazon (Paperback, Kindle, or audiobook editions)

• ChristianBook.com (Paperback edition)