Cleansed by Christ to come boldly to God

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Before a blood-sprinkled mercy seat, washed and cleansed, we pour out our prayers and praises."

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SpurgeonBooks
January 31, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

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

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh savior, repeat for us what you did to the twelve disciples when you took a towel and basin and washed their feet. And when that was done you told them that “one who has bathed doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean” (John 13:10). Oh, let your children be in that condition this morning—clean everywhere—and may they know it; and thus being clean may they have boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ; and may they now come and stand where the cherubim once were, where the glory still shines forth. And may we before a blood-sprinkled mercy seat, ourselves washed and cleansed, pour out our prayers and praises.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Then Jesus answered him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ ‘Rabboni,’ the blind man said to him, ‘I want to see.’” (Mark 10:5)

If you would succeed in prayer, you must be bold; you must lay aside your modesty. If you had to ask of Christ only what you deserve, it would not take you long, for you deserve nothing but his wrath. Therefore, do not begin to ask on the ground of merit; and inasmuch as you deserve nothing, yet want everything, go in and be a bold beggar, and say, “Lord, save me, today.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Takistani of Iran.

Psalm 86:9 celebrates, “All the nations you have made will come and bow down before you, Lord, and will honor your name.” No Takistani have ever bowed down before the Lord Jesus or honored his name. They cannot come to him because they have never heard of him.

Pray that Jesus would finally receive the glory he deserves from the Takistani.

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