Help us not be lazy as we battle sin

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Often, though busy in the world we become spiritually idle.”

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SpurgeonBooks
April 30, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We lament that in the body of this death there is much that we abhor. We are tempted to laziness at times, and though busy in the world we become spiritually idle. Also, we are tempted to envy others, because they excel us, and we mourn to confess the meanness of our spirit in this matter; and also we have to lament our pride. We have nothing to be proud of; the lowest place is ours; but Lord, we often conceive ourselves to be something when we are nothing.

We pray that you would forgive all these vices of our nature; but at the same time kill them, for we hate ourselves to think we should fall into such evils.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.” (Colossians 2:6–7)

Take a living hold of Christ as a tree does of the soil. Be also built up in him; as a building settles down upon the foundation, so do you settle down upon Christ. When a man is established in the truth that he knows, and rejoices in what he has already received, he will not go away from it.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Lao Lom of Thailand.

Thailand enjoys great religious freedom. The gospel can spread freely.

Thank God for allowing true religious freedom in Thailand; pray that his true worship would spread.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“If grace does not make you to differ from your surroundings, is it really grace at all?” — Charles Spurgeon