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Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

Thanks for praying with us this week! (Don’t miss the weekend edition tomorrow!)

• This week, the newsletter focused on God’s power over Satan. Read all the newsletters here.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Rule us, savior, rule us, we ask you. Do not let us violate the purity of our hearts to the beloved of our souls. Oh Jesus, help us to love you so intensely that our love for you would cover all and swallow up all. Oh, to be wholly Christ’s! We do mourn that we cannot reach to this—that in the secret of our hearts every devil should be cast out, every demon driven to its deep, every sin made hateful, every thought of sin made loathsome to us, until only pure desires and inward longings after perfect holiness shall predominate in our nature. Oh God, let the scourge still be used to drive out the buyers and sellers: we would not ask to have them spared, but let the temple be the Lord’s, seeing he has built it and has cleansed it with his blood.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Be sober-minded, be alert. Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. Resist him, firm in the faith…” (1 Peter 5:8–9)

Satan knows how to use God’s providence to serve his own ends. Satan’s principal aim with believers is to bring their appetites and his temptations together, to get their souls into a dry, seared state, and then to strike the match, and make them burn! He is so crafty and wily with the experience of many centuries that human beings, who are but of yesterday, can scarcely be considered a match for him. What should we do to overcome this adversary? “Resist him, firm in the faith.” This is our first means of defense. The devil will soon give up if he finds that his attacks drive us to Christ.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

This week, we have been focusing our prayers on God’s power over Satan. As Christians, we know that the devil is real and at work in the world. As parents, we know that we have a responsibility to protect our kids from his wicked influence.

We read from Spurgeon on Monday, “The only way to repel Satan’s subtlety is by acquiring true wisdom.” If we want our kids to be kept safe from the devil’s influence, we need to fill their minds and hearts with God’s Word. In our distracted day, kids need the Bible more than anything — and parents, you are better equipped than anyone to teach it to them. Family devotionals from God Centered Family will give you everything that you need. 

If you are interested in filling your home and your kids’ hearts with God’s Word, I hope you’ll check out these devotionals.