Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on evangelism. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

If it might be so we would pray for the coming of our Lord very speedily to end these sluggish years, these long delaying days. But, if he does not come yet, put power into your truth and enliven your church that she may become energetic for the spread of it, so that your kingdom may come. We seek this first and above everything, the glory of God. We ask for grace so that we may live with this end in view. May we lay ourselves out to it. May this be our morning thought, the thought that we have in our minds when we lay awake at nights. What shall I do to praise my savior? How can I make him illustrious and win another heart to his throne?

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.” (2 Corinthians 4:5)

What a miserable topic we would have if we did preach ourselves! But we do not set up ourselves as “priests” having authority to administer “sacraments” to a lower order of beings who do not possess sacerdotal sanctity; we do not claim to belong to a ministerial caste; we regard ourselves as simply on an equality with the rest of the Christian brotherhood; and, therefore, “we preach not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Harzani of Iran.

This is a group of 38,000 people with zero Christians among them or speaking their language. Unless someone comes from the outside, they will never hear about Jesus.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Harzani.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

CA grace-based book on evangelism

Evangelism isn’t meant to be an unnatural, guilt-motivated task that Christians carry out with dread and fear — it’s meant to be a natural overflow of our life in Christ.

Marks of the Messenger by Mack Stiles is a short book on evangelism that has the power to transform your life. In the book, Stiles shows that evangelism isn’t motivated by fear, guilt, or pragmatism, it’s simply motivated by who Christ is and our faith in him.

God wants to do a work through you in 2025 — get prepared and motivated by reading Marks of the Messenger.

Buy Marks of the Messenger:

• Amazon (Paperback or Kindle editions)

• ChristianBook.com (Paperback or ebook editions)