God is with us in our sickness

🛐 Daily Prayer: "The sick bed is soft when you are there."

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SpurgeonBooks
May 27, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our longing is to feel your presence and it is the heaven of heavens that you are there. The sick bed is soft when you are there. The furnace of affliction grows cool when you are there, and the house of prayer when you are present is none other than the house of God, and it is the very gate of heaven.

Have mercy upon all who are poor and needy, all who are sick and sorrowing, and who are tossed upon the sea. Be gracious to those who are approaching death; and, finally, let the day come when the sun shall shine forth in all his brightness, even Christ Jesus shall be revealed, to be admired among those who believe and to make glad the whole creation. Do not delay, oh sun of righteousness, but come forth speedily. We ask it for your name’s sake.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He forgives all your iniquity; he heals all your diseases.” (Psalm 103:3)

God makes medicine effective for the body and his grace sanctifies the soul. Spiritually we are under his care every day, and he visits us like a surgeon visits his patient; he is still healing each malady as it arises. No disease of our soul baffles his skill, he goes on healing all, and he will do so until the last trace of filth has gone from our nature.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Rind of Pakistan.

The Rind are Muslims. One of the five pillars of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca, a dream that is far too expensive for most of the Rind to achieve. They need to hear the true good news that God doesn’t require them to go to Mecca — he actually came down to save them.

Pray that the Rind would hear and believe the gospel.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

In sickness, God invites our honest lament

When faced with trials, instead of faking a smile, we should be honest. We should lament. We should weep before God. We should urgently beg him to set us free, “How long oh Lord?”

A great, encouraging book to help you understand God’s invitation to honesty and lament in prayer is Just Be Honest: How to Worship through Tears and Pray without Pretending by Clint Watkins. This book is filled with practical counsel on how to approach God with honesty, lament, and faith. It also has sound biblical advice for how to talk to other Christians when you’re suffering.

This is a phenomenal book that I know will encourage you, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints than health has.” — Charles Spurgeon