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God, we love you, help us love you more

God, we love you, help us love you more

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We are willing to lose our name and our reputation if you might be glorified by it."

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April 06, 2026

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on loving God more. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, now that we have come so near to you, and are on right terms with you, we venture to ask you this, that we who love you may love you very much more. Since you have become precious to us, your very name has music in it to our ears and there are times when your love is so inexpressibly strong upon us that we are carried away with it. We have felt that we would gladly die to increase your honor. We have been willing to lose our name and our reputation if you might be glorified by it. Truly, we often feel that if the crushing of us would lift you one inch higher, we would gladly suffer it.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’” (Matthew 22:37)

“With all your heart.” Because he is our God, the Lord claims our heart’s love. As our Creator, preserver, provider, and judge, he commands us to yield to him all our heart’s affection; to love him first, best, heartiest; out of all comparison to the love we have to any fellow-creature or to ourselves.
“With all your soul.” We are to love God with all our life, to love him more than our life; so that, if necessary, we would give up our life rather than give up our love to God.
“With all your mind.” We are to love God with our intellect, with all the powers of our mind, bringing memory, thought, imagination, reason, judgment, and all our mental powers, as willing subjects to bow at God’s feet in adoration and love.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Naruo are a group of 16,000 people who have never heard the good news of Jesus (as far as we know). They haven’t rejected the gospel; they’ve never had a chance to reject it! They will never hear the gospel unless someone comes from the outside to bring it.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Naruo.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

See God in his glory; love him more truly

This week, we’re focusing on the theme of loving God more. We want to love God more faithfully, more fervently, and more truthfully.

When I think about the books I’ve read over the last few years, God is the Gospel by John Piper really stands out. This book shows from Scripture that God is our greatest reward and our highest possible joy. Reading this book filled me with more joy in God and gratitude for what he’s done for me. This really is John Piper at his best — a powerful, logical argument advanced clearly through great exposition of Scripture, with sound application woven throughout. You won’t regret time spent reading God is the Gospel, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

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