God is the help of his people

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August 26, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

Last week, “Pray with Spurgeon” highlighted the theme of our weakness. This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on God’s strength. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord God, the strength and the hope of your people, we approach you through Jesus Christ your Son, with notes of thanksgiving; for we are not ashamed of our hope, neither has our confidence led us into confusion. We have proven it to be true, that those who trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, which can never be moved, which abides forever. We trusted in you with regard to our innumerable sins, and you have cast them behind your back. We trusted in you when many evils surrounded us and you brought us out into a wealthy place.

The Lord has helped his people, yes the Lord has been the strength and the help of his chosen. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all;” and at this moment, in looking back upon the past, we have nothing to do, but to admire and to adore the constancy of love, the faithfulness of grace.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.” (Psalm 28:7)

The Lord employs his power on our behalf, and moreover, infuses strength into us in our hour of weakness. The psalmist, by an act of appropriating faith, takes the omnipotence of the Lord to be his own. Dependence upon the invisible God gives great independence of spirit, inspiring us with confidence more than human.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Kluet is a group of 58,000 Muslims. They aren’t just non-Christians, they have never had opportunity to believe in Jesus.

  • They do not know any Christians.

  • The full Bible is not in their language.

  • There is no church in their area.

  • The gospel has never been proclaimed among them.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Kluet of Indonesia.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Getting to know the God who is stronger than we are.

This week, we’ll be reflecting on the strength and power of God. While we are weak, he is undefeatable. He is completely different than we are. A great book for understanding how God is greater than we are (and why that’s really good news) is None Like Him by Jen Wilkin.

In each chapter, Jen unpacks one of God’s incommunicable attributes — the attributes that make God unlike us — and discusses how knowing each of these attributes of God will change our lives. This is biblical, rich, glorious theology. Jen does a great job exposing our shortcomings and showing how God is gloriously more powerful than we are.

None Like Him will fill you with love and amazement at God’s greatness. I know that it will grow your faith. I hope you’ll grab a copy today.