Give us heaven on earth

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Give us drops of heaven’s glory before we come to bathe our souls in it."

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October 20, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Give us drops of heaven’s glory before we come to bathe our souls in it. Refresh us with heaven’s manna before we sit at the heavenly table. Let us have the clusters of Eshcol before we go up to take possession of this good land, and may your people, despite the weakness of the flesh and the infirmities of nature, be so filled with grace that, like Moses they may climb to the top of Nebo and have a vision across the stream. Our Father in heaven, we are persuaded that our great request is not too great for you. Bring us up to heaven now. Illuminate our eyes that we may behold you in your own light through Jesus Christ. Be a help to the speaker and to every hearer for Jesus Christ’s sake.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.” (2 Corinthians 5:1)

Our affliction is light compared with the glory that will be revealed to us and in us soon. How soon our mortal life must end! But does the brevity of life cause us any anxiety? Oh, no! “We have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.” And once we reach that blessed abode of all the saints and look back on our earthly experiences, we will feel that any affliction we had to endure was light, indeed, compared with the unutterable bliss that will then be our eternal portion.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Mjuniang of China.

The Mjuniang are a group of people who, as far as we know, have never heard the gospel of Jesus. These 56,000 people will be born, live, and die without ever hearing the good news that Jesus died and rose to save us. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it to them from the outside.

Pray that God would send workers to the Mjuniang.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“In heaven the whole glory of salvation will be to the wounds of Jesus and nothing else.” — Charles Spurgeon