Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week and next, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the Lord’s Prayer. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father, blessed be the grace and love which have taught us to use that dear familiar name—“Our Father in heaven,” and therefore highest and most exalted, and worthy to be breathed with awe and reverence by all that draw near to you.

Oh Lord, we have learned to call you “Our Father in heaven;” so there is reverence, for you are in heaven; but there is sweet familiarity, for you are our Father. We would draw very near to you now through Jesus Christ the Mediator, and we would boldly speak to you as a man speaks with his friend, for you have said by your Spirit, “ let us approach the throne of grace with boldness” (Hebrews 4:16).

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.” (Matthew 6:9)

We pray as children to a Father, and we pray as brothers, for we say, “Our Father.” “Our Father” is a familiar name, but the words “in heaven” suggest the reverence due unto him. Our Father and yet in heaven; in heaven and yet our Father. May his name be treated reverently, and may all that is about him—his Word and his gospel—be regarded with the deepest awe! It is for us so to walk before the Lord in all lowliness, that all shall see that we reverence the character of the thrice-holy One.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

See the Lord’s Prayer with Fresh Eyes

Over the next two weeks, we’ll be praying through the Lord’s Prayer with Spurgeon.

The Lord’s Prayer is a gift — it keeps our prayers balanced, biblical, and bold. But these words have become so familiar to us that we often miss out how incredibly radical they are.

A great book to see the Lord’s Prayer with fresh eyes is The Lord and His Prayer by N.T. Wright. Wright does a great job at helping readers take a step back to see these words of Jesus with fresh eyes. You’ll be amazed at Jesus’ shocking invitation to prayer.

I know this book will encourage your prayer life this summer — I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

Buy The Lord and His Prayer:

• Amazon (Paperback, Kindle, or audiobook editions)

• ChristianBook (Paperback edition)