Your Kingdom Come

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Holy Spirit, you alone can do this. All the eloquence of preachers will affect nothing without the Holy Spirit."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 12, 2024

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

May your kingdom come among men. We long to see you reign over every class of society. Oh, that the great ones of the earth would humble themselves before you. Oh, that the multitude would own him who is exalted above the people, the people’s Friend. May your will be done, O Lord, on earth, as it is in heaven. That would make earth a nether heaven. God, may men give up their own wills, their own lustings, their own pride, and follow after God and be obedient.

Holy Spirit, you alone can do this. All the eloquence of preachers will affect nothing without the Holy Spirit. We trust not in music, nor education, nor in civilization, nor in anything but the distinct power of the Holy Spirit working in men to will and to do God’s own good pleasure. Our Father, work with your great power.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10)

Men have thrown off their allegiance to our Father, God; and we pray with all our might that he may, by his almighty grace, subdue them to loyal obedience. We long for the coming of King Jesus; but meanwhile we cry to our Father, “your kingdom come.”

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Study Revelation with Your Kids

As we pray for God’s Kingdom to come, we should fix our eyes on the future when God will come in all of his glory. Last week, I released the latest family devotional from God Centered Family, covering the book of Revelation.

I was definitely intimidated when I started to plan and write this devotional, but I was reminded once again that Revelation shouldn’t produce fear about the end times (or supply us with a chart or timeline); instead, Revelation should produce amazement about Jesus.

In a world of distractions, our kids need this kind of grand, glorious, future-oriented vision of Jesus. They need to know that he is greater than anyone and anything they might ever see.

I can’t wait to hear what God does in your family’s lives as you read Revelation this summer.