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VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead…” (Philippians 3:12–13)

Believe that you are sinful, admit that sin far too often prevails over you, and then go humbly to God, and confess that it is so, and seek from him grace to keep you, day by day, from the power of reigning sin; and you will, in that way, make a real advance in sanctification and true holiness.

That forgetting of the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those that are ahead, that pressing forward toward the mark for the prize of your high calling in Christ Jesus, to which the apostle urges you—that seeking to fight from day to day with the temptations that surround you, not reckoning that you have won the victory yet, but believing that you will win it through the blood of the Lamb—this is what we long to see in you.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Idaksahak in Mali.

The Idaksahak are a group of 174,000 Muslims. There are no Christians among them because they have never heard the message of Jesus. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it to them from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Idaksahak.

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