God, pour out your Spirit

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Long for heavenly things and our treasure is entirely in heaven and our heart is there too."

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SpurgeonBooks
April 09, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, pour out your Spirit upon us so that every chamber of our nature may be sweetened and perfumed with the indwelling of God until our imagination shall only delight in things chaste and pure; until our memory shall cast out the vile stuff from the dark chambers; until we shall expect and long for heavenly things and our treasure is entirely in heaven and our heart is there too. Take our highest humanity, Lord, and saturate it in your love, until it is filled with dew like Gideon’s fleece, every lock and every single fleck of it, not a single portion of it left unmoistened by the dew from heaven.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.” (Revelation 2:4)

What love we had for our Savior the first time he forgave our sins. When we first loved him, how passionate we were. There was not a single thing in the Bible that we did not consider most precious. There was not one command we did not think to be like fine gold. Where did we lose our first love, if we have lost it?

  • Have we lost it in the world? Too much of the world is a bad thing for any person.

  • Have we lost our first love by spending too much time with worldly people?

  • Have we forgotten how much we owe Christ?

  • Have we neglected communion with Christ?

There are a thousand possible reasons, but each person must search his own heart.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Naruo of China.

The Bible has likely never been translated into the Naruo language, but some young people are learning other languages.

Pray that the next generation will receive the gospel and bring it home to the Naruo.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Christ is worth any sacrifice*

We need to treasure Christ more so that we really believe that he is worth any rejection, hatred, or persecution we face in his name.

Yesterday I shared about a book, Extreme Devotion, that has helped me foster this kind of love for Christ in my own heart. The book shares 365 testimonies from Christians who have been rejected, insulted, attacked, imprisoned, or even killed for their faith.

The book doesn’t just tell the stories of these Christians, it also includes a verse of Scripture and a few lines of reflection points for each daily reading.

It’s all so encouraging and powerful.

The most prominent theme throughout this book is NOT that faith is costly, but that Christ is worthy.

If he takes it all, we’ll still have him. And that’s what matters.

This month, you can get a FREE copy of Extreme Devotion from my friends at The Voice of the Martyrs. They will send a copy to anyone who requests it while supplies last (USA only).

Trust me, you want a copy of this book. It will fuel your faith and deepen your love for Christ, preparing for the day that devotion to him might become costly.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Lord Jesus, by your immeasurable love for us, teach us to love you.” — Charles Spurgeon