Living out our new life in Jesus

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Lord, let us not live as if we were merely earth-born, for we are born from heaven."

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SpurgeonBooks
October 17, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, let us not live as if we were merely earth-born, for we are born from heaven. Let us not live as if our portion were beneath the moon; for our best portion lies on the other side of Jordan, in the good land where Christ has gone to take possession of it in our name. And as you are with the Father, let us feel that we are with the Father. Forgetting all the noise and turmoil of this week of tossing to and fro; forgetting all cares and anxieties of family and business, we now come to Jesus and know that we have come to God and are now speaking with our Father face-to-face.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, he saved us—not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy—through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” (Titus 3:4–5)

By his eternal power and divinity, the Holy Spirit gives us a totally new nature, a life that could not grow out of our former life nor be developed from our nature—a life that is a new creation of God. We are saved not by evolution but by creation. We experience regeneration, which means being generated over again, or born again.

Remember the result of this as set forth in covenant terms: “And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). This great process is carried out by the Holy Spirit.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Idaksahak in Mali.

God has promised that all nations “will know that I am the LORD” (Ezekiel 25:7). But how can they know unless someone tells them?

Pray that the gospel would reach the Idaksahak for the first time.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

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  • Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service

  • Q&A with Spurgeon — How can I grow in humility?

  • Spurgeon’s Letters — A letter Spurgeon sent to a protege who was training to serve in ministry.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“It is your business to preach the gospel to dead sinners, for it is the gospel that makes the dead to live.” — Charles Spurgeon