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🛐 Daily Prayer: "Fill us today with all the fullness of God and thus make your people joyful and strong"

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SpurgeonBooks
January 23, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

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

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Remember everyone who calls you Father. May a Father’s love look on all the children. May the special need of each one be supplied, the special sorrow of each one be assuaged. May we be growing Christians, may we be working Christians, may we be perfected Christians, may we come to the fullness of the stature of men in Christ Jesus.

Lord Jesus, you are a great pillar; in you all fullness dwells. You began your life with filling the water jars to the full; you filled Simon Peter’s boat until it began to sink; you filled the house where your people were gathered together with the presence of the Holy Spirit; you fill heaven; you will surely fill all things; fill us today with all the fullness of God and thus make your people joyful and strong, gracious and heavenly!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34)

We do not forestall sorrow by being anxious about the future. Our responsibility is for today; we are only to ask for bread day by day, and that only in sufficient abundance for the day’s consumption. To import the possible sorrows of tomorrow into the thoughts of today is an excessive amount of unbelief. When tomorrow brings sorrow, it will bring strength for that sorrow. Today will require all the strength we have to deal with its immediate evils; there can be no need to import worries from the future. To load today with trials not yet arrived would be to overload it. Anxiety is evil, but anxiety about things which have not yet happened is altogether without excuse.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Bushi of Mayotte.

God has said, “my name will be feared among the nations” (Malachi 1:14). The Bushi have never heard his name. Will this promise come true?

Pray that God would receive the praise from every nation that he is worthy of.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

Each Saturday, I send a bonus email to Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers. Here’s what to look forward to in tomorrow’s email:

  • Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service

  • Q&A with Spurgeon — What should we do when worried?

  • Spurgeon’s Letters — A letter that Spurgeon sent to his soon-to-be wife, about six months before their wedding.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Never was there care so tender, so perpetual, so faithful, so affectionate, as the care of God over all his chosen ones.” — Charles Spurgeon