Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the cross 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)

O God, thrice holy, infinitely blessed, we can meet you at the cross. You are well pleased with Jesus, and so are we. Your pleasure in him is as constant as it is boundless. Our pleasure in him increases every day. That is all our salvation and all our desire. With Thomas, we have put our hand into the great gash in his side, and we have cried “My Lord and my God!”

Our very heart loves Jesus; oh that we loved him more! Still do we delight in him. Our happiest moments are in his company—Jesus the wellspring and river of joy. We are our Beloved’s, and our Beloved is ours.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.” (Galatians 6:14)

Among scholars Paul might have taken an eminent position. Yet, though he must have felt a human delight in the talents which God had given him—and must have known that he possessed them—he still says concerning them, “I will never boast about anything.” He seems to take all that he had, all that he did, and all that he was, and put it all away, and come forward with no other theme upon his lips and no greater love in his heart except this—Jesus crucified for the sons of men. Jesus to be great among the nations. Jesus, the slaughtered Lamb, to be made for people their life from the dead, their salvation from going down into the pit.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Understand Why Jesus Really Had to Die

This week as we reflect in our prayers on the death of Jesus, we need to consider WHY it was necessary for the Son of God to die. This is the center of our faith — a shallow understanding is not enough.

Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die by John Piper is an excellent devotional for considering the cost and the reward of the cross. The book offers fifty short devotionals, each explaining a different reason Jesus came to die.

Why should you read this book? Could you list out fifty biblical reasons that Jesus had to die right now? If not, then this book will deepen your understanding of the cross and your love for Christ.

I know it will encourage you — I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

Buy Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die:

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