God, see us in our sickness

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Oh, sweet love of God, comfort them. Cover all the rocks, oh mighty tide of everlasting love, until not a rock is seen"

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SpurgeonBooks
May 29, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, look upon these people for good. You know the troubles of every burdened spirit. You know how some of those whom you love are sick; how others have to watch over their dearest ones fading away, and withering like flowers. Lord, send comfort to the saints in trouble.

Are your dear children poor, or are they sick in body, or are they losing those they love, or is there yet a newly dug grave over which they could shed floods of tears? Oh, sweet love of God, comfort them. Cover all the rocks, oh mighty tide of everlasting love, until not a rock is seen; and on that glassy sea may our spirits float above the rocks, which otherwise had wrecked our lives. We do pray that you would give us comfort, but also give us strength as well as consolation.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“… none there will say, ‘I am sick.’ The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.” (Isaiah 33:24)

Sin had made these people sick. But when iniquity is forgiven, then “the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.” Special chastisement is usually removed when any peculiar sin is forgiven. God, under a former age, very manifestly visited sin with chastisement in this life; and when he forgave it, he removed the weight of his hand from the offender. In the case of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, if some of the temporal results of sin do not cease, they remain for other purposes, good and useful, and not as wrathful inflictions.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Rind of Pakistan.

The Rind live in mountainous regions isolated from other peoples. This will be a challenging place for missionaries to reach and live, but there is no other way for them to be saved.

Pray that God would give endurance to missionaries among the Rind.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The gospel is not a reward for health, but a medicine for sickness.” — Charles Spurgeon