Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

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

Make sure you read the newsletter to the end — I’ve included an important update about the future of Pray with Spurgeon below.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord our God, how excellent is your name in all the earth! Some of us have to thank you for many mercies bestowed. We thank you for them; for we feel that we are entirely in your hands in all respects. Others of us have been brought very low, bruised full sore. Having a little strength remaining, we desire to praise and bless the giver of every gift.

You are good when you give, and you are good when you take away. You are good when the night gathers heavy around us. You are good when the sun shines and gladdens our pathway. You are always good and always do good, and blessed be the name of the Lord from the rising of the sun to its going down, and through the night watches let his praise be still celebrated.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” (Job 1:21)

Some of the rarest pearls have been found in the deepest waters, and some of the choicest utterances of believers have come when God’s waves and billows have been made to roll over them. The fire consumes nothing but the dross and leaves the gold all the purer. In Job’s case, he had lost nothing by all his losses, for what could be purer and brighter gold than this that gleams before us from this text, revealing his triumphant patience, his complete resignation, and his cheerful acquiescence in the divine will?

We must learn the wisdom of never ascribing any earthly comfort to any earthly source. We must worship the giver and not the gift. There is infinite love in every act of God in taking from us, just as much as in giving to us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Matpa in Bhutan.

This group of 21,000 Buddhists has no Christians living among them. They do not have the Bible in their language. There are no churches near them that they could attend. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Matpa.

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF PRAY WITH SPURGEON

For the past five years, sending this newsletter each day has been a labor of love. While affiliate fees and sponsorships have mostly covered my costs, I haven’t made much money from this newsletter (and, at times, I’ve lost money 😅). But this year, I’m going to need your help.

In a few months, a major source of income for my family is expected to end. As I’ve planned and prayed about what to do next, I’ve realized that I may need to end Pray with Spurgeon for good in order to free up my time for other work. However, I really don’t want to do that. I’ve heard from so many of you about how God has used this newsletter to strengthen your prayer life. This is an important ministry that needs to continue. And so, I’m asking for your help.

This week, I’m launching Pray with Spurgeon Plus — a paid subscription for anyone interested in supporting this newsletter.

Here’s what you’ll get when you subscribe for $2.50 each month:

• Audio Edition — Each day, along with the normal Pray with Spurgeon content that you love, you’ll also receive an audio edition. Listen to Pray with Spurgeon in the car, while you cook breakfast, or anywhere else on the go.

• Weekend Edition — The Weekend Edition will return! This much-beloved Saturday email includes a prayer to help you prepare for church. The new and improved Weekend Edition will include other content from Spurgeon, including his personal letters (which are really encouraging devotional reading!)

• Bonus Downloads — I’m working on several prayer-related resources (including a modern translation of With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray, one of the most powerful books on prayer ever written, with original reflection questions and interactive exercises). These resources will be available for free to all Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers.

• Support the Ministry — With your help, we can make sure Pray with Spurgeon continues to exist to help everyone grow their prayer life and learn from Spurgeon.

Click here to subscribe and support this work.

I started Pray with Spurgeon when my first daughter was five-months-old. Five years (and more than a thousand emails) later, I have three kids and Pray with Spurgeon continues to be a joy to produce each day. I hope you’ll consider supporting this ministry so we can continue to bless others for years to come.

In Christ,

Doug Hanna
Creator, SpurgeonBooks
Editor, Pray with Spurgeon

P.S. To be clear: As long as it exists, Pray with Spurgeon will always be 100% free for anyone. This new Plus subscription option will not replace anything in the current newsletter — it’s merely a way for those who are able to support the ministry financially to do so. You can subscribe to Plus right here.

From my family to yours — THANK YOU for your support!