God can give peace and rest

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Our Father, come and give rest to your children now. Take the helmet from our heads, remove from us the weight of our heavy armor for a while, and may we just have peace, perfect peace, and be at rest. Help us now, we pray."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 03, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on rest. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father, come and give rest to your children now. Take the helmet from our heads, remove from us the weight of our heavy armor for a while, and may we just have peace, perfect peace, and be at rest. Help us now, we pray.

As you have already washed your people in the fountain filled with blood and they are clean, now this morning wash us from defilement in the water. Oh Master, wash our feet again. It will greatly refresh; it will prepare us for innermost fellowship with you, as the priests washed before they went into the holy place.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened…” (Matthew 11:28)

“Come;” he drives none away; he calls them to himself. His favorite word is “come.” Not, “Go to Moses,” “Come to me.” To Jesus himself we must come, by a personal trust. Not to doctrine, ordinance, or ministry are we to come first; but to the personal savior.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God gives rest. It’s time to learn why.

If you’re looking for a great summer reading book that will give you true rest in Christ, you need to check out Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund. This book is an absolutely stunning picture of God’s grace to us in Christ. It will fill you up with confidence to know that God will always be patient, because that’s who he is.

I’ve been moved to tears several times while reading this book and seeing the stunningly beautiful and thoroughly biblical picture of Christ’s love for his people. The book is great reading for any sinning and suffering Christian (which is all of us!)

I hope you’ll grab a copy and read it this summer. I promise that you won’t regret it!