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VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.” (Hebrews 10:22)

God cannot talk with an imperfect being. He could talk with Adam in the garden, but he could not talk with you or with me, even in paradise itself, as imperfect creatures. How, then, am I to have fellowship with God, and access to his throne? Why, simply thus: “For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy” (Hebrews 10:14). Consequently, we have access with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace, and may come boldly in all our time of need. And what is better still, we are always perfect, always fit to come to the throne, whatever our doubts, whatever our sins.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Belide in Indonesia.

The Belide consider themselves entirely Muslim, but their lives are controlled by superstitious fears. For example, they refuse to grow durian fruit in much of their land because a local legend believes that an ancestor placed a curse on anyone who grows durian in that area after one of the plants fell from a tree, striking their son and killing him. Only Jesus can set them free.

Pray that the Belide would find real hope in Jesus.

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