I am unfaithful

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Lord, you have been very patient with us."

SpurgeonBooks
March 23, 2026

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on our unfaithfulness. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We are like Israel in the past, a fickle people, and, we confess with great shame, there are days when we take the tambourine and we sing with Miriam “to the LORD, for he is highly exalted”(Exodus 15:21), and yet, we grieve to say it, not many hours after, we are thirsty, and we cry for water, and we complain in our tents; the brackish Marah turns our heart and we are grieved with our God.

Sometimes we bow before you with reverence and awe when we behold your Sinai in smoke; but there have been times when we have set up the golden calf and we have said of some earthly things, “These are your gods, Israel” We believe with intensity of faith and then doubt with a horribleness of doubt.

Lord, you have been very patient with us. Our sins have been many, but your strikes are fewer than our crimes.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“… if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:13)

Glory be to God, the unbelief of man cannot make God break his promises. Christian, all your unbelief has not made God unfaithful to you; and sinner, though you cast out the promise of God as being good for nothing, yet he will not therefore miss the repayment of his reward, for Jesus will save others if he does not save you. “He remains faithful.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

This is an ethnic group of 29,000 people with likely zero Christians among them. They haven’t rejected Jesus, they simply haven’t heard of him (and never will unless someone comes from the outside to tell them.)

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Lao Lom.

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