Fighting Satan with holy joy

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We defy Satan with a holy joy which does not come from the creature and which the creature cannot mar"

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SpurgeonBooks
May 26, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We long to have the kind of fellowship with God this morning that we might defy Satan, defy unbelief, defy the flesh, and defy the world with a holy joy which does not come from the creature and which the creature cannot mar—a “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” a drink from of the eternal fountains, which well up from the deep in the immutable and everlasting love and decree of God. Let it be so with every child of yours at this good hour.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.” (1 John 3:8)

It was in his death that Jesus chiefly overthrew Satan and destroyed his works. Satan built his strategy on this—that man had become offensive to God and God must punish him. That punishment was his hope for the continuance of alienation.

Behold, the great Son of God takes the offender’s place! Marvel of marvels, the Judge stands where the criminal should have stood and is “counted with the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12)! Behold, the wrath of God falls upon his well-beloved and Jesus suffers that he may reconcile man to his God and heal the breach that sin had caused. The deed was done. Man is no more offensive to heaven, for one glorious man’s boundless merit has put away the demerit of the race.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Ahmadi of India.

The Ahmadi are followers of a Muslim sect focused on the teachings of a prophet in the late 1800’s who claimed to fulfill some prophecies about the end times.

Pray that the Ahmadi would hear the good news that only Jesus can bring the purposes of God to completion.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The only way to repel Satan's subtlety is by acquiring true wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon