Hope from God's Promises

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We long to make our praises equal to our expectations, and our expectations equal to your promises. We can never rise so high."

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February 02, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

When we think of all that you have promised to give, which our faith embraces as being really ours, since the covenant makes it sure, we do not know how abundantly enough to utter the memory of your great goodness. We long to make our praises equal to our expectations, and our expectations equal to your promises. We can never rise so high. We give to you, however, the praise of our entire being; unto the Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the Creator of the world, the redeemed of men, unto the Lord be glory forever and ever, and let all his people praise him. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.” (Matthew 6:19)

Lay not out your life for gathering wealth; this would be degrading to you as servants of the heavenly kingdom. If you accumulate money, your treasures will be liable to “moth and rust;” and of both you may be deprived by dishonest men. That earthly things decay, or are taken from us, is an excellent reason for not making them the great objects of our pursuit. Do not hoard for thieves to steal from you, do not gather that which will only become corrupt; accumulate for eternity, and send your treasures into the land where you are going. To live for the sake of growing rich is a gilded death in life.

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