Jesus is the great physician

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Heal us, Immanuel, of our unbelief and make us strong in faith, giving glory to God."

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SpurgeonBooks
March 24, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on sickness and healing. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Christ Jesus our Lord, you are still mighty to heal and we are a company who have come together full of sicknesses and sores and sorrows of all kinds. We would not waste a moment while blessings are so widely available and the power to heal is so remarkably present in you; but we each will strive to touch you, if we may, and ask that this day virtue would come out of you, oh blessed risen Christ, to heal us of whatever disease we have.

Let us have no distrust of your power to save even us, though we are the least of all saints and the very chief of sinners. Let us have no distrust of your providence, no doubt of your faithful love; but may we just trust you as a child trusts his father, without the shadow of distrust, resting in the Lord and waiting patiently for him. Heal us, Immanuel, of our unbelief and make us strong in faith, giving glory to God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.” (Malachi 4:2)

This promise has also had a practical fulfillment in the deathbed experiences of God’s people. Tortured with disease, they have been lying in the darkness and gloom of death. Perhaps fears have come in and physical infirmity has been the platform that Satan has planted his heavy guns of temptation. But suddenly a wondrous light has surprised them—their dying bed has become a throne of glory. For you who fear the name of the Lord, whatever gloom may surround your departure from the earth, the sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings, and one day you will find him rising even upon your mortal bodies.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

This group of 28,000 people has zero Christians. They will never hear about Christ unless someone from outside of their culture goes to them. 

Pray that missionaries would go to the Ashtiani.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God is at work in your suffering

Spurgeon once said that “The greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is sickness. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints than health has.” Spurgeon, who suffered from chronic illness for much of his adult life and died at only 57 years, knew the pain of suffering, but he also knew that God was at work in it. His teaching on suffering is POWERFUL, which is why I compiled some of his greatest sermons on the topic into a book.

Spurgeon on Suffering is a collection of classic Spurgeon sermons, unedited and unabridged, to help you remember that God is at work, even in the darkest moments of your life.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The Christian need not dread sickness, for he has nothing to lose, but everything to gain, by death.” — Charles Spurgeon