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Hope in Jesus (and Jesus alone)

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Dear savior, we do take you to be everything to us, our sin-bearer and our sin-destroyer"

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September 19, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We have no merit, no claim, no righteousness of our own. Dear savior, we look up to you. Oh, that some might look for the first time, and those of us that have long looked would fix our happy gaze again upon that blessed substitutionary sacrifice wherein is all our hope. Dear savior, we do take you to be everything to us, our sin-bearer and our sin-destroyer. We do not have a shadow of a shade of hope anywhere but in you, your life, your death, your resurrection, your ascension, your glory, your reign, your second advent; these are the only stars in our sky.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD.” (Psalm 31:24)

Every one of you, lift up your heads and sing for joy of heart. God is faithful, and does not fail even his little children who do but hope, wherefore then should we be afraid?

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Dabarre of Somalia.

We’re taught in Psalm 67:4 to pray, “Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy.” In the bleak landscape of Somalia, it might be hard to see a reason for the Dabarre nation to rejoice; but when the gospel finally reaches them, they will be full of undefeatable joy.

Pray that the gospel of peace will reach the Dabarre of Somalia for the first time.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

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Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service
Q&A with Spurgeon — How can I truly worship God?
Spurgeon’s Letters — A letter of sympathy that Spurgeon sent to a friend who was navigating a trial.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Without faith we are without hope, for a true hope can only spring out of a true faith.” — Charles Spurgeon