Jesus is my only confidence

🛐 Daily Prayer: "I come again; I rely on nothing but your merit; nothing but your love is my confidence; I give myself up to you; take me as I am, and wash me clean."

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SpurgeonBooks
May 08, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, do you wash my feet? Then I will come to you; I will come with my feet all filthy if there is such a bath as this to be washed in. If my sins are returned to me, and appear to remain upon my conscience, if you still wait to wash me from present guilt and present depravity, then here I am—as at the first I came, I come again; I rely on nothing but your merit; nothing but your love is my confidence; I give myself up to you; take me as I am, and wash me clean.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.’ ‘One who has bathed,’ Jesus told him, ‘doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean.’” (John 13:9–10)

Come, then, you that feel you have been sinning the last week—you that are God’s people, you that are resting on Christ, but have a sense of guilt upon your consciences, and cannot get rid of it, and are sighing and crying, do ask this question, “Do you wash my feet?” I say it is a subject for admiration, how thoroughly clean Christ does wash his people, so that they can really cry, “There is no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, even upon my feet; I shall be presented holy and blameless in the sight of God through Jesus Christ my Lord.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Tagale of Sudan.

Christ “is going to rule all nations” (Revelation 12:5). When will he finally receive the crown he deserves over his people among the Tagale?

Pray that the gospel would finally reach the Tagale.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

Each Saturday, I send a bonus email to Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers. Here’s what to look forward to in tomorrow’s email:

  • Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service

  • Q&A with Spurgeon — Do Christians always have to forgive?

  • Spurgeon’s Letters — a letter Spurgeon sent to his mother, wishing her well. (Great reflection for Mother’s Day!)

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Why was the fountain filled with blood if you need no washing?” — Charles Spurgeon