All our joy in God alone

🛐 Daily Prayer: "You are not only the greatest source of joy to our spirit, but you are all our joy—we have none apart from you."

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SpurgeonBooks
May 20, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

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

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Blessed be your name God of all grace, you have revealed yourself to us, you have brought your life to our death and made us alive in you; you have brought your light to our blindness, and made us to behold you; and now you are not only the greatest source of joy to our spirit, but you are all our joy—we have none apart from you. Whatever comfort we find in creation, we know it is but fickle; and while it is there, it comes from you; for all these things are empty, and vain, and void without you. Whom have we in heaven but you, and there is none upon earth that we desire beside you!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4)

In the first place, this is a very delightful thing. What a gracious God we serve, who makes delight to be a duty and who commands us to rejoice. Should we not at once be obedient to such a command as this? We should be cheerful—more than that, we should be thankful, and we should rejoice.

This word, “rejoice,” is not only joy once, but it is joy over again, rejoice! We are to joy, and then we are to re-joy. We are to chew the cud of delight—we are to roll the dainty morsel under our tongue till we get the very essence out of it.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Sharing Joy with Those Who Have None

Joy is one of the most incredible promises that God gives us. As we invite others to follow Jesus, we are inviting them to a life of infinite joy in God. A great book to help you understand the unique role that joy has in the Christian life and evangelism is Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care by Kyle Beshears.

This book is presented as a manual for sharing Jesus with people that couldn’t care less about him, but really it’s a call for Christians to recover true joy in God — the kind of joy that will propel us to our neighbors and draw them in to learn more.

Apatheism has been an incredible challenge and encouragement to me, and I know it will bless you too.