God is our Father

SpurgeonBooks
February 02, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

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

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father, for that is the sweetest title by which we can address you, we pray that you would save us entirely from sin. There are many in your presence who are resting in the peace which comes from justification by faith. We know that we are righteous through the righteousness of another, even Jesus Christ; but we pant and pine for personal likeness to you. If you are our Father, then upon every child of yours should be the Father’s image impressed: so let it be.

We ask you, Lord, to enable us to recognize our death to sin; and when it tempts us may we be deaf to the voice of the charmer with the deafness of death; and when it would use our members as instruments of unrighteousness, may we be quite incapable thereof with the incapacity of death.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance…. for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:14, 16)

Observe the reason for obedience to the command: “because I am holy.” Children should be like their fathers. There are many children who bear, in their very faces, evidence of their sonship. You know who their fathers were by the image that the children bear. Oh, that was always so with all the children of God: “You will be holy, because I am holy.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Bilala of Chad.

The Bilala is a culture of 313,000 individuals in central Chad. As far as we know, they are entirely Muslims. They believe that they will be saved by doing good deeds and keeping the five pillars of Islam. Who will tell them the truth?

Pray that missionaries will go to the Bilala of Chad.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Know (and enjoy) God the Father

This week, Pray with Spurgeon is focusing on God the Father. If you want to increase your understanding of what it means for God to be your Father (and how God the Father is different from God the Son and God the Spirit), a great place to start is Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God by Joe Thorn.

This book is fifty short devotionals, each covering one aspect of God’s character and work. The book is divided into three sections: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, with each devotional reflecting on a different aspect of that person’s glory.

This daily devotional is a breath of fresh air — add it to your daily reading and you will grow your knowledge of God and your love for God. I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

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