Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

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

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Most glorious Lord God, it is marvelous in our eyes that you became incarnate, that your Son should take our flesh upon himself. It surprises us greatly that the Lord of Life should condescend to die and that the incorruptible one should be laid in the grave. We are full of loving gratitude, we are also full of adoring wonder. When we have stood at the tomb and looked into it, and thought of Jesus having lain there, when we have seen it open and knew that it was empty, we bless your name even that he died and was buried, and magnify you that he is risen again from the dead. These great facts concerning our divine Lord are the foundation of our confidence in him.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.” (Luke 2:8–9)

These men were probably poor and illiterate, but that did not hinder God from revealing himself to them, nor prevent the coming of his Son to them. They were engaged in their ordinary calling, “keeping watch over their flock by night,” when this great blessing came to them.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Kakabe is a tribe of 14,000 people. There are no Christians among them. They will never hear about Jesus unless someone comes from another culture to tell them.

Pray that missionaries would go to the Kakabe.

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