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Hope because Jesus is alive

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We are born again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

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March 31, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

God, we thank you that we have not been cast out. Blessed by your name. It is a work of divine power and love over human nature, for now we are the children of the promise, certainly not born according to the strength of the human will, or of blood, or of birth, but born by the Holy Spirit through the power of the Word, born again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, children of the Great Father who is in heaven, having his life within us. Now, like Isaac, we are heirs according to promise and heirs of the promise, and we dwell at home in the Father’s house, and our soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and our mouth shall praise you as with joyful lips.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, ‘There is no resurrection of the dead’?” (1 Corinthians 15:12)

Had they got so far as that, to call themselves Christians, and yet they doubted the truth of the resurrection of the dead? Yes, they spirited it away, they made it into a kind of myth or fable; and yet they called themselves Christians. The heathen do not believe the resurrection, that is not surprising; but that those who professed to believe that Christ had risen from the dead, yet doubted the resurrection of his people, was indeed a strange thing.

If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, we are preaching a falsehood. If he did not rise from the dead, you are believing a falsehood, and our preaching and your believing are nothing but vanity.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Palembang are Muslims, but they also have a lot of reverence for shamans, who have special power over the spirit world. They believe their shamans can heal the sick.

Pray that the Palembang would find true healing in Jesus, who rules over even the demons.

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