Jesus gives us the victory

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We rejoice in the great sin-bearer because our sin is not imputed to us; it is put away by his precious blood and we are accepted in the Beloved."

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May 02, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We thank you that Jesus gives us the victory; but we long to have that victory in ourselves more constantly realized—more perfectly enjoyed. We would lie in the very dust before you because of sin. Yet at the same time, we rejoice in the great sin-bearer because our sin is not imputed to us; it is put away by his precious blood and we are accepted in the Beloved. But even this does not content us; we are crying after the work of the Holy Spirit within, until Satan shall be bruised under our feet, and sin shall be utterly destroyed.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“So we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us.” (1 Thessalonians 2:18)

Satan is sure to hinder Christians when they are earnest in prayer. Have we not frequently found that when we have been most earnest in supplication, something or other will start across our minds to make us cease from praying? If Satan possibly can, he will come upon God’s people in those times when they are full of thought and ready for Christian effort, that he may murder their infant plans and cast these suggestions of the Holy Spirit out of their minds.

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