God is always good.

🛐 Daily Prayer: "You are good when you lay us low, when the bed of sickness becomes hard, and our bones are weary."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 16, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the goodness of God. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord our God, before we ask for anything from your hands, we desire to praise and magnify your name; for you are good in yourself, and in all your thoughts, all your acts, and in all that you do toward us. You are good when you lay us low, when the bed of sickness becomes hard, and our bones are weary. You are good when you strip us of all earthly comforts; good when we stand at the grave’s mouth and bury our dearest love. You are good in all things. Shall we not bless the God who takes, as well as the God who gives? We would not follow you as a dog follows a stranger for a bone; but we would love you as loving children, who love even a chastising Father, and have learned to say, “Even if he kills me, I will hope in him” (Job 13:15).

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Taste and see that the LORD is good. How happy is the person who takes refuge in him!” (Psalm 34:8)

Taste and see. Make a test, an inward, experimental test of the goodness of God. You cannot see the goodness of God except by tasting for yourself; but if you taste you shall see. His sweetness will be all unknown to you unless you make the blessings of grace your own, by a living, inward, vital participation in them.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Bonan are an ethnic group of 12,000 people, descended from Mongolians. They have never heard the gospel; they have no Bible in their language; they have no churches in their area. They will never hear the gospel unless someone from the outside brings it to them.

Pray that God will send missionaries to the Bonan.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God is good to the sinful, weak, and downtrodden

This week as we consider the beautiful reality of the goodness of God, I want to share a resource that’s been a REALLY encouraging and practical reminder of God’s goodness for me: Good News at Rock Bottom, a new book by Ray Ortlund.

This book applies the greatness and kindness of our gracious God to situations that make us feel hopeless — including guilt, betrayal, loneliness, and more.

I cannot stress enough how powerful this book has been for me. And I know it will encourage you too.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“God has not forgotten us. The very breath in our nostrils is proof of his goodness to us.” — Charles Spurgeon