Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on growing in godliness.

Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, hear us who are your children, in whom the Spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Hear us while we bring before you our daily struggles. Blessed be your name; there are some sins which you have helped us to overcome and now they are trodden beneath our feet with many a tear that we ever should have been in bondage to them. And oh, there are rebellions within our nature still. We think that we are getting holy, and behold we discover that we are under the power of pride, that we are self-conceited about ourselves. Lord help us to master pride.

Then when we try to be humble before you we find ourselves falling into inaction. Lord, slay sloth within us, and never let us find a pillow in the doctrines of grace for ease while yet a single sin remains. O keep us, we beseech Thee, Lord, for without Thy keeping we cannot keep ourselves.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” (Philippians 2:12)

The Holy Spirit, in regeneration, descends into a man and creates in him a new nature. He does not destroy the old that remains still to be battled with, and to be overcome. Though the nature which the Spirit implants is perfect in its kind and in its degree, yet it is not perfect in its development. God, having first worked it in, it becomes the business of the Christian life to work out the secret inner principle until it permeates the entire system, until it overcomes the old nature, until it in fact utterly destroys inbred corruption, and reigns supreme in the man’s every part—as it shall do when the Lord takes us to dwell with himself forever.

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