Jesus is ours (even though Christmas is over)

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Jesus, we love you—we are yours; and you are ours."

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SpurgeonBooks
December 26, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

Thanks for praying with us this week. We’ll be back on Monday.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

This morning we feel our hearts warmed towards you, in the person of your dear Son. Surely we cannot see him made our brother, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, sympathizing with us, married to us, dead for us, and risen again for us—we cannot gaze into his right royal face without feeling our heart melt at the very sight of him.

Oh Jesus, we love you—we are yours; and you are ours. You have given yourself to us, as well as for us; and now we cheerfully give ourselves back to you, feeling that we are never so much our own as when we are yours; that indeed we are not ourselves, until we are lost in you; but that then have we found our truest manhood, when it and all else is surrendered to the all-conquering power of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)

The name of Jesus was given to our Lord because he saves—not according to any temporary and common salvation, from enemies and troubles—but he saves from spiritual enemies and especially from sins. Joshua of old was a savior; Gideon was a savior; David was a savior; but the title is given to our Lord above all others because he is a Savior in a sense in which no one else is or can be. He saves his people from their sins. The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my standing but my falling, not my riches but my need. He comes to visit his people—not to admire their beauties but to remove their deformities, not to reward their virtues but to forgive their sins.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Kakabe of Guinea.

We must pray that “the whole earth [will] shout joyfully to God” (Psalm 66:1). The Kakabe do not know the joy of the Lord and cannot celebrate his greatness.

Pray that the Kakabe would hear the good news of great joy that Jesus has come to save us.

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Parents, teach your kids the Bible in 2026

Like many of you, I’m a parent. One of my greatest desires for my kids is that they would give their lives to passionately following Jesus. More than just “getting them into heaven,” I want my kids to have a life-transforming relationship with God that will shape their lives today (and forever).

In a world of distractions, kids need the Bible more than anything. Parents, you are better equipped than anyone to teach it to them.

So here’s my challenge to parents: read the Bible to your kids every day of 2026.

No matter how old they are,
No matter how busy you are,
No matter how unqualified you think you are…

Let’s make 2026 a “Year in the Word” for our families.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Our salvation hinges upon the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.” — Charles Spurgeon