Lead us not into temptation

🛐 Daily Prayer: "If we must be tested, then deliver us from evil, and especially from the evil one, that he may get no dominion over us."

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SpurgeonBooks
June 20, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We pray, lead us not into temptation. Do not test us, Lord, nor suffer the devil to test us. If we must be tested, then deliver us from evil, and especially from the evil one, that he may get no dominion over us.

Oh, keep us, Lord. This life is full of trials. There are many that are perplexed about temporary things. Do not let the enemy lead them to do or think anything that is wrong, because of the lack of supply.

Others are blessed with prosperity. Lord, let it not be a curse to them. Let them know how to abound as well as to suffer loss. In all things may they be instructed to glorify God, not only with all they are, but with all they have, and even with all they have not, by a holy contentment to do without that which it does not please you to bestow.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (Matthew 6:13)

In the course of providence, the Lord tests our graces and the sincerity of our profession; and for this purpose he does “lead us into temptation.” We entreat him to not try us too severely. Lord, let not my joys or my sorrows become temptations to me. As I would not run into temptation of myself, I pray, do not lead me where I must inevitably meet it.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

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