Make the most of every word

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Dear Savior, bring people up from the very depths of transgression."

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May 13, 2026

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Bless, at this time, those who are beginning to seek after better things. Though perhaps they do not know the Lord yet, if there is any stirring up of grace to seek something better, Lord, lead them further than they mean to go. Bring them to yourself, and let the trouble in the world today end in conversions, or else we would not care anything about it whatsoever. If Jesus is not glorified, we will loathe it rather than love it. Dear Savior, bring people up from the very depths of transgression, from lust, and drunkenness, and wrath, and rioting, and evil speaking—bring them up, Eternal Spirit. How glad we are to get a word with them; how anxious that our words should, like the Master’s, reveal them to themselves, and then reveal him to them. Save, Lord.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—making the most of the time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15–16)

Do not walk carelessly. Do not think that how you live is unimportant; but looking all round you, walk carefully, watching lest even in seeking one good thing you spoil another. Never present to God one duty stained with the blood of another duty.

Make the most of the time. Buy up the hours. They are of such value that you cannot pay too high a price for them.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

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

The Abaza are a people marked and defined by war. They have known little grace and mercy is not a prominent part of their culture. The gospel will be very counter-cultural.

Pray that the gospel would be preached among the Abaza and be received as good news.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

The Bible’s guide to stop wasting time

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Living Life Backward by David Gibson is a fantastic guide to Ecclesiastes. He unpacks the wisdom of this book in a way that is clear and relevant. This book has impacted me and the way I approach life more than most of the books I’ve read in my life.

If you want to understand Ecclesiastes (and finally understand how to live a life that pleases God), I highly recommend grabbing a copy of Living Life Backward.

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.

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“I will also give him the morning star.” (Revelation 2:28)

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, what a blessing it is to see “the morning star” in Jesus. I remember when we read in the newspapers the idle tale that the star of Bethlehem had again appeared. On investigation we found that it was only “the morning star” and no great mistake had been made after all.

It is best to see Jesus as the sun; but when we cannot do so, the next best thing is to see him as that star which prophesies the day and shows that the eternal light is near. If I am not all that I hope to be, I see Jesus and that assures me that I will one day be like him. A sight of Jesus by faith is the down-payment of beholding him in his glory and being transformed into his image. If I do not have all the light and joy I could desire at this hour, I know that I will have it. As surely as I see the morning star I shall see the day. The morning star is never far from the sun.

Come, my soul, has the Lord given you the morning star? Do you hold fast that truth, grace, hope, and love which the Lord has given you? Then in this you have the dawn of coming glory. He that makes you overcome evil and persevere in righteousness has given you the morning star.

Something to think about today if you’re feeling discouraged about the state of the world: Jesus is coming back to make everything right again.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“A calm hour with God is worth a lifetime with man.” — Charles Spurgeon