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š Daily Prayer: "It is you who made us and not we ourselves; we are your people and the sheep of your pasture."
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March 03, 2025
Pray with Spurgeon
Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks
DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
All glory be to our creator, preserver, redeemer, comforter. It is you who made us and not we ourselves; we are your people and the sheep of your pasture. We would worship and bow down; we would kneel before the Lord our maker in the reverence of our hearts. All honor and glory and power and dominion be to you who sits on the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever! What can our souls render? Our eyes are better than our lips in this adoration, for we can weep to the praise of the mercy which we see in the bleeding Son of God; but still at the foot of the throne we would worship him who lives forever.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
āIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.ā (Genesis 1:1)
When that beginning was we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but it was not self-existent. It was created by God; it sprang from the will and the word of the all-wise Creator.
PRAY FOR THE NATIONS
This week, weāre praying for the Yangliu Lalu of China.
The Yangliu Lalu (YANG-loo LAH-loo) are a people group of 49,000 people with no Christians among them. They have never heard the name of Jesus and they cannot trust in him unless someone from the outside comes to tell them.
Pray that missionaries would go to the Yangliu Lalu.
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Godās grace for parents
Godās Word instructs parents, āFathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they wonāt become discouragedā (Colossians 3:21).
We do not rule over our children with domineering, iron fists. As a God-appointed authority over their lives, we must consistently expect obedience, but we do so in a gentle, non-exasperating, discouragement-avoiding way.
Easy to say. Harder to do.
Especially when disobedience is stubborn (and embarrassing).
How can we continually parent in this kind of gentle way?
By turning to the grace of God and the power of God.
We turn to the grace of God and remember that our God has been radically patient with us, so we must be patient with our children.
We turn to the power of God and remember that HE is able to save our children. Which is good news, because we arenāt able to. As you gently, patiently parent your children, remember that they will not be saved by your ability to muster up obedience, but by a faith-look at the Risen Savior.
