Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Help everyone here to make an acceptable confession of sin, with much mourning, with much deep regret, with much self-loathing, and with the absence of anything like a pretense of merit or excuse. Here we stand, Lord, a company of tax collectors and sinners with whom Jesus condescends to sit down with. Heal us, Immanuel! Here we are, needing that healing. Good Physician, here is work for you; come and manifest your healing power!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.” (2 Corinthians 7:10)

Genuine spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too great a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but repentance never shows itself in sinners unless divine grace works it in them. If you have one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it to you, for human nature’s thorns never produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Maba of Indonesia.

The Maba are farmers. January is the middle of the crucial “wet season” for Indonesia when rains will enable them to grow their crops.

Pray that God would send rain for the Maba.

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