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God of love, help us love you

God of love, help us love you

🛐 Daily Prayer: "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."

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March 13, 2026

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

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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

Want to be a pastor? Are you sure?*

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Even in the church, public gifts are celebrated more than private integrity.

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