God of love, help us love you

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September 06, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

Thanks for praying with us this week. We’ll be back on Monday.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Help us to love you. We have expressed our love, but we are ashamed when we have done so because, after all, what is our love? it is so faint, so cold to you, compared with your love for us. So we would adore you this morning for the love which you have shown to us. You loved us before the foundation of the world. Yours is no new compassion; for those whom you foreknew, you predestined to be conformed unto the image of your Son out of your own pure love for them. And because you have loved us with an everlasting love, you have drawn us with lovingkindness, and we feel the drawings now.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 4:10)

Sometimes people say, “How can we love a person who is not lovable, one who will not love us in return?” Yet God did so; he loved us when we loved him not, he loved us when there was nothing lovable in us; and we ought to take God as our pattern in all things.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Ashtiani of Iran.

The New Testament promises that Christ will be praised in every language (Philippians 2:11). However, he’s never been praised in the Ashtiani language. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.

Pray that many Ashtiani would hear the good news of Jesus and come to treasure him forever.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

New Kids Book: It’s Wonderful to Be in Christ

Recently, I’ve been preaching through Ephesians in our church and have been struck afresh with the realization that being a Christian is about more than a changed future. God has showered us with countless blessings (like being a citizen of heaven, being adopted as sons, and more).

Lately, my kids and I have been loving a new book that explores this same topic: C is for Christian: An A-Z Treasury of Who We Are in Christ by Alistair Begg. I was so thankful to receive a review copy of this book. It is a wonderful explanation of the wonderful blessings we have in Christ. The illustrations are amazing (my kids have loved finding how each letter is hidden in the pictures) and the teaching is so solidly biblical and age-appropriate. I’ll be honest, I’ve picked up the book more than once after my kids are in bed. It’s that good.

I hope you’ll add this book to your family’s library today.