Looking to Jesus, day after day.

🛐 Daily Prayer: "As we look to him crucified for us, may our souls drink in deep peace and heavenly rest."

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SpurgeonBooks
July 30, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We ask this great favour from your hands, that the Lord Jesus Christ may stand among us by his spiritual presence and that we may all be especially conscious that he is fulfilling his promise, “I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). Many of us have looked to him and we have been enlightened and our faces are not ashamed. We must look to him again today. Oh, that we might remember that he was crucified, and as we look to him crucified for us, may our souls drink in deep peace and heavenly rest. Give to every believer a sweet sense of pardoned sins, a blessed consciousness of divine love, a holy peace of mind, a blessed restfulness in Christ. Give also perfect consecration, strong resolve to serve the Lord while here below to the utmost of our capacity. Give more receptiveness that we may be ready to hold. Lord, enlarge us; give more faith to believe great things and to lay hold of great things.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” (John 1:29)

God-sent servants do not say, “Look to the priest; look to the altar; look to the sacraments; look to yourself; come and confess your sins, and I will give you absolution.” They do nothing of that sort. The servants of Christ cry, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Our great difficulty is to get men’s eyes off themselves, off their works, off their forms and ceremonies, off mere creed-religion, and to get them to look at the living Christ who is still among us bearing the sin of all who truly seek his face.

I do not want you to have the shadow of a shade of a ghost of a pretence of a confidence anywhere out of Christ. Jesus only is the one hope of sinners; let him be A to you, and Z, and all the letters between, the beginning and the end, and the middle, and everything else.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Tumari Kanuri of Niger.

Very few Tumari Kanuri children will ever go to school because there are no schools in their language. However, Islamic schools excel at religious education and passing on their faith to the next generation.

Pray that Christian teachers would learn the Tumari Kanuri language, establish real schools, and teach the truth of Christ.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God’s love is an ocean. Dive in with Spurgeon.

We look to Jesus and discover nothing but love in his heart. God’s love provides for us, serves us, helps us, forgives us. God’s love, seen supremely at the cross of Christ, is our only hope in life and death. It’s important that we continually remember and reflect on the greatness of God’s love. That’s why it’s the theme of “Pray with Spurgeon” this week.

To help you continue to enjoy God’s love, I put together a book, Spurgeon on God’s Love, which compiles twelve sermons by Spurgeon, all reflecting on the glorious reality of God’s unchanging love.

These sermons have really encouraged me over the last few months and I know that they will encourage you. Plus, buying a copy is a great way to support this ministry, so I can continue to send this newsletter every day. (The software I use to send this email recently raised their prices — I hope you’ll consider supporting this ministry if you’re able to.)

I hope you’ll grab a copy for yourself (and another one for a friend!) and reflect on God’s love.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK

Spurgeon’s classic devotional, The Chequebook of the Bank of Faith, contains a promise of God for every day of the year. Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers receive the daily readings every weekday.

If you want to strengthen your faith in God’s promises (and support this ministry!), subscribe to Pray with Spurgeon Plus here.

“So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.” (John 16:22)

Jesus will surely come a second time, and then, when he sees us and we see him, there will be great rejoicing indeed. We long for that joyous return!

But this promise is being fulfilled daily in another sense. Our gracious Lord has many “agains” in his relationship with us. He gave us pardon, and he sees us again, and repeats the forgiving word as fresh sins cause us grief. He has revealed to us our acceptance before God, and when our faith in that blessing grows a little dim, he comes to us again and again, and says, “Peace be with you,” and our hearts are glad.

Beloved, all of our past mercies are tokens of future mercies. If Jesus has been with us, he will see us again. Look upon no former favor as a dead and buried thing to be mourned over; but regard it as a seed sown, which will grow and push its head up from the dust. Cry to Jesus, “I will see you again.” Are the times dark because Jesus is not with us as he used to be? Let us pluck up courage; for he will not be away for long. His feet are “like those of a deer” (Habakkuk 3:19), and they will soon bring him to us. Therefore let us begin to be joyous, since he says to us even now, “I will see you again.”

Something to think about today if you’re feeling needy: God will never stop blessing you in Christ.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“As long as you look to yourself there is no hope for you.” — Charles Spurgeon