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🛐 Daily Prayer: "Let none of us fritter away our existence."

SpurgeonBooks
May 14, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We pray for some of your own people who seem to be doing very little for you. Lord, have mercy upon those whose strength runs towards the world and who give little of their strength to the spread of the gospel and the winning of souls.

Let none of us fritter away our existence. May we begin to live since Christ has died; may we believe that because he died, we died to all the world, and because he lives, we live in the newness of life. Lord, we thank you for that newness of life

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4)

Humanity is only vapor. We appear for a little while and then vanish away. We are as thin and airy and insubstantial as our own breath. We come and we go—we are here such a little while that we can scarcely be said to be, for we only just began to exist when we close our being so far as this world is concerned.

We do not know what is best for us—not even in temporal things, much less in spiritual things. Which is better for someone in this life—wealth or poverty, health or sickness, fame or obscurity? It all depends on being where God puts us. We had better be content to remain just as we are and be satisfied and thankful to be where God has placed us in his providence. Who knows what is good for us? God does, and that is better than for us to know.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Abaza of Russia.

As Muslims, the Abaza believe that they can earn eternal life by keeping the five pillars. They do not know the hope of Christ.

Pray that the Abaza would finally hear the gospel and embrace it.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Though you have changed a thousand times, he has not changed once.” — Charles Spurgeon