Faith is from God

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We never would have looked with these bleary eyes of ours to that dear cross, unless first the heavenly light had shone"

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SpurgeonBooks
December 09, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

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

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

There are many of us who have looked to Jesus and are lightened, but we do confess that our faith was the gift of God. We never would have looked with these bleary eyes of ours to that dear cross, unless first the heavenly light had shone, and the heavenly finger had taken the thick scales away. Therefore, we trace our faith to that same God who gave us life and we ask now that we may have more of it. Lord, maintain the faith you have created; strengthen it, let it be more and more simple.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)

Though these realities are only “hoped for” and “not seen” at present, the eye of faith can see them, and the hand of faith can grasp them. Faith is more mighty than any of our senses, or than all our senses combined.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Jiiddo in Somalia.

The Jiiddo are a group of 39,000 people. There are zero Christians among this Muslim people group. They do not have the Bible in their language. There is no church they could attend.

Pray that missionaries would go to the Jiiddo with the good news of Jesus.

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This is an absolutely breathtaking read that I think will bless and benefit every Christian. It is a great testimony of God’s work around the world and a beautiful example of Christian hope. This book will also expose you to the experience of refugees and persecuted Christians, filling you with compassion.

Nayeri writes from the perspective of his 12-year-old self, and this book is an absolutely incredible patchwork of his own experiences, Persian myths, and cultural analysis.

I know this book will bless you, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today.