God uses our pain

🛐 Daily Prayer: "You have often brought us very low, even to our knees, and we cried for mercy"

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SpurgeonBooks
April 23, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, look upon your people. We might pray about our troubles. We will not; we will only pray against our sins. We might come to you about our weariness, about our sickness, about our disappointment, about our poverty; but we will leave all that, we will only come about sin. Lord make us holy, and then do what you will with us.

You have often brought us very low, even to our knees, and we cried for mercy, but we rose to sin again. Blessed was that day when you struck the blow of grace. Then you withered up our beauty and all our perfection was rolled in the dust. We saw ourselves to be slain by the law, to be lost, ruined, and undone, and then we rolled to and fro in the tempests of our thoughts and staggered like drunken men, and were at our wits’ end—then we cried unto you in our trouble. Blessed be your name forever, you delivered us.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” (2 Corinthians 1:5)

The apostles were the most tried, but they were also the most comforted. They had to stand the brunt of the battle, but the Lord was their strength in a very special sense. With little trial, we may expect little comfort. It is better to leave the whole matter entirely with God, or else we might almost desire to be dug up by the spade of affliction so that we might receive more of the living waters of consolation.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Mubi of Chad.

The Mubi are entirely Muslim. They believe that they must keep the five pillars of Islam to find the mercy of God. They do not know the grace of the one true God in Christ.

Pray that God would set the Mubi free from these lies.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Jesus felt sickness and pain, poverty and hunger, weakness and depression.” — Charles Spurgeon