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Jesus is everything to us

Jesus is everything to us

🛐 Daily Prayer: "You are our wisdom, not our experience. You are our righteousness, not our good deeds or almsgivings."

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January 08, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, we have heard of some that can look back upon their lives with pleasure and satisfaction, but we wish to look nowhere but to you, our Savior. You are our wisdom, not our experience. You are our righteousness, not our good deeds or almsgivings. You are our sanctification, not our prayers or careful living. You are everything to us and we are just nothing. We were nothing when you began with us, when we lay wallowing in the blood, cast out in death in the open field to perish. Then you said “Live,” and we lived by virtue of that word.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.” (Isaiah 64:6)

We are not like the green leaf on the tree; we may seem to be so for a moment, but very soon our righteousness fades like a withered leaf and our iniquities, like the wind which bears the withered leaves from the branch, carry us away. This is what we all are by nature; this is what the people were in Isaiah’s day, the whole nation seemed to be unholy, its outwardly righteous people were not really righteous, its ministers were not truthful, its kings were not honest, and even the professors of purity were immoral at heart.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Aheria in India.

The Aheria are a lower caste. Christians reaching out to the Aheria will face social pressures, in addition to the government pressures we prayed about yesterday.

Pray that Christians in India would not worry about what others think, knowing that God does not show favoritism.

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