God’s promises will never (ever, ever, ever) fail

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Lord, in looking back we are obliged to remember with the greatest gratitude the many occasions in which you have heard our cry."

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SpurgeonBooks
January 15, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, in looking back we are obliged to remember with the greatest gratitude the many occasions in which you have heard our cry. We have been brought into deep distress and our heart has sunk within us, and then have we cried to you and you have never refused to hear us. You have rejected the prayers of our lusts, but the prayers of our necessities you have granted. Not one good thing has failed of all that you have promised. Blessed be the name of the Lord forever, our inmost heart is saying. Amen, blessed be his name.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith without doubting.” (James 1:5–6)

We cannot ask of a person of whose existence we have any doubt and we will not ask of a person of whose hearing we have serious suspicions of. Who would stand in the desert of Sahara and cry aloud, where there is no living ear to hear? Now, my dear hearer, you believe that there is a God. Ask, then! Do you not believe that he is here, that he will hear your cry, that he will be pleased to answer your cry to give you what you ask for? Now, if you cannot believe that there is a God, that he is here and that he will hear you, then confess your ignorance, and ask him now to give you the promised wisdom for Jesus’ sake.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Bible hasn’t been translated into the Micha’s language. They can’t hold to God’s promises, because they have no way of hearing them.

Pray that faithful and trained Bible translators would bring Scripture to the Micha.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

What a Christian should NEVER feel in sexual sin*

A Christian man or woman stuck in sexual sin will feel a lot of things — but the one thing that you should NEVER feel?

Hopeless.

Yes, your sin is serious, but your Savior hasn’t given up on you (and he isn’t going to). He is mighty to save and will never stop forgiving you.

Unfortunately, this isn’t what many Christians experience when dealing with sexual temptation and sin. Women, especially, are often left feeling alone, ashamed, and broken by their own sexual sin. This isn’t how Christ ever sees his people — even in their sin.

And that’s why I’m so thankful for a new book, You Are Not Alone by Molly Bertles, which offers biblical counsel for women struggling with masturbation.

Molly has written a book that is vulnerable, biblical, practical, and gracious. This book offers solid HOPE and practical guidance to gaining freedom from shame and habit — all rooted from God’s Word. She does an amazing job at calling women to pursue REAL change (offering specific steps to renew their mind and change their habits) while never forgetting that CHRIST is our only hope.

Readers will step away from this book with their eyes fixed on Jesus and their resolve for purity strengthened.

If you’ve been enslaved to masturbation (or know someone who is), this book is the resource you’ve been looking for. I’m confident that God is going to powerfully use this book.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“There is no saint here who can out-believe God. God never out-promised himself yet.” — Charles Spurgeon