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God, help me grow this year

God, help me grow this year

🛐 Daily Prayer: "May we walk with God in unbroken fellowship year after year"

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January 02, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

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Thanks for praying with us this week. We’ll be back on Monday.

This week, the newsletter focused on the new year. Read all the newsletters here.
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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father, all of us who have been pardoned, now desire the Spirit of God, dwelling within us, may preserve us from all sin each day. Sanctify our thoughts. Keep our whole being clean and sweet before God, that we may be always fit to offer sacrifice as priests unto God and may never be shut out of the temple because of our uncleanness. We long for perpetual communion with God so that we may be able to exercise a perpetual ministry on the behalf of God, offering prayer and thanksgiving and testimony among the sons of men. Lord grant us this. Let us be like Enoch, full of the divine life, so that we cannot die; full of the divine light so that we cannot err; walking with God in unbroken fellowship year after year.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Then the one seated on the throne said, ‘Look, I am making everything new.’ He also said, ‘Write, because these words are faithful and true.’” (Revelation 21:5)

If Jesus has not made us new already, let the new year cause us to think about the great and necessary change of conversion; and if our Lord has begun to make us new and we have somewhat entered into the new world where righteousness dwells, let us be persuaded by the season to press forward into the center of his new creation, that we may feel all the power of his grace in its fullness.

The words he speaks to us in this verse are truly divine.

“Look, I am making.” Who is the great I? Who but the eternal Son of God?

“Look, I am making.” Who can make but God, the maker of heaven and earth? It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy.

“Look, I am making everything.” What a range of creating power is here! Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle.

“Look, I am making everything new.” What a splendor of almighty goodness shines out upon our souls! Lord, let us enter into this new universe of yours. Let us be new-created with the “everything new.” May other people behold the marvels of your renewing love in us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Abkhaz of Turkey.

God promised that “All the nations will be blessed” through Christ (Galatians 3:8). When will the Abkhaz receive this wonderful blessing?

Pray that many Abkhaz would turn to Christ in faith.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

Each Saturday, I send a bonus email to Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers. Here’s what to look forward to in tomorrow’s email:

Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service
Q&A with Spurgeon — What will happen this year? Do we have any power to change it?
Spurgeon’s Letters — A New Year’s letter that Spurgeon sent to ask for donations for his Pastors’ College.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Pray that this year you may grow downward: that you may know more of your own vileness, more of your own nothingness, and so be rooted in humility.” — Charles Spurgeon