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🛐 Daily Prayer: "We long to love the Savior with a passion that can never cool!"

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February 10, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We bring our hearts to you, full of love for you for what you have done; full of gratitude, full of faith, full of hope, full of joy. We feel glad in the Lord. But we do confess that if there be anything acceptable in our offerings, it was given to us from you first. No praise comes from us until first it is wrought in us. Well may we lay those fruits at your feet that were grown in your garden, and that gold and silver and frankincense which you yourself bestowed; only first give us more!

We long to love the Savior with a passion that can never cool! Oh, to believe in God with a confidence that can never stagger! Oh, to hope in God with an expectation that can never be dim! Oh, to delight in God with a holy overflowing rejoicing that can never be stopped so that we might live to glorify God as well as we are able, living with enthusiasm—burning, blazing, being consumed with the indwelling God who works all things in us according to his will.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command.’” (Matthew 22:37–38)

Who can render to God this perfect love? None of our fallen race. Salvation by the works of the law is clearly an impossibility, for we cannot obey even the first commandment. There is one who has obeyed it and the obedience of Christ is reckoned as the obedience of all who trust him. Being free from legal condemnation, we always seek after obedience to this “greatest and most important command” by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Razihi of Yemen.

The Razihi are a group of 83,000 Muslims with no access to the message of Jesus. There are no churches near them, no Bibles in their language, and no Christians from their midst. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Razihi.

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The firm faith of the persecuted*

I know people who have been excluded, slandered, and rejected for their faith in Christ. While this really does hurt, it doesn’t even come close to what our brothers and sisters are experiencing around the world right now. Today, in more than 70 nations around the world, Christians are being persecuted for their faith. They face rejection, torture, imprisonment, and many even lose their lives. Christians are being tortured for bearing the name of our Savior.

But persecuted Christians don’t want to be pitied. They have experienced the truth of Jesus’ promise: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs” (Matt 5:10).

We DO need to care for our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted (Heb 13:3), especially praying for them. At the same time, we also need to learn from them because their faithfulness is an incredible testimony to the power of God.

I’ve been really encouraged reading the stories of persecuted Christians in the book When Faith is Forbidden. This book is a 40-day journey on the frontlines with persecuted Christians: forty true stories of God’s work in and through our brothers and sisters being tortured and imprisoned for Christ. Their faith is inspiring.

This book is not a pity party about how sad persecution is (although it does not hold back describing the horrific realities around the world today). It is a celebration of God's faithfulness. In the darkest parts of the world, Christ is at work, caring for his people.

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