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Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father in heaven, here at your footstool we confess that our hearts are full of evil. We are always going astray from you. Though we have tasted your love and know something of its constraining power, yet our soul is as full of vanity as a cage that is crowded with unclean birds. Even when we pray, our distracted thoughts are flying here and there. How little of our time do we spend in your service. How few are the words that we speak about you or for you. How little is the savour of Christ upon our garments. How seldom do we rise to God or taste the joy above! We are of the earth, earthy; and though we hope that in some degree we are spiritual, yet alas, we are compelled to feel that we are carnal.

We acknowledge, oh God, our sins of omission. We have all forgotten you and forsaken you, times without number. Nor are we without sins of commission too, for we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have done those things which we ought not to have done, as well as left undone those things which we ought to have done. Oh, that you would have mercy upon us and blot out all our sins.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long…. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not conceal my iniquity. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and you forgave the guilt of my sin.” (Psalm 32:3, 5)

When through neglect I failed to confess, or through despair dared not to do so, “my bones,” those solid pillars of my frame, the strongest portions of my bodily constitution began to decay with weakness, for my grief was so intense as to sap my health and destroy my vital energy. What a killing thing is sin! It is a pestilent disease! A fire in the bones! When we confess, God’s pardons are deep and thorough; the knife of mercy cuts at the roots of the ill weed of sin.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Maba of Indonesia.

The Maba do not have the Bible in their language. If they wanted to learn more about Jesus, they have no way of doing so.

Pray that faithful and qualified Bible translators would bring God’s Word into the Maba language for the first time.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Confess the sin of anger (and seek real change)

This week, as we think about the confession of sin, we need to talk about one of the most prevalent and dangerous sins in our culture today: anger.

If you’re feeling angry in your workplace, home, or anywhere, I want to recommend a short booklet to you, Help! My Anger is Out of Control by Jim Newheiser.

This booklet is packed with biblical truth to help us understand and address anger in a way that glorifies God and depends on Christ. I’m exaggerating when I say that this book saved my life and my marriage.

Whether you want to get your own anger under control or help someone else with their anger, Help! My Anger is Out of Control is a great resource.

Buy Help! My Anger is Out of Control:

• Amazon (Paperback or Kindle editions)

• ChristianBook (Paperback or ebook edition)