May God help us in our trials

🛐 Daily Prayer: "The Lord has been the strength and the help of his chosen."

Author

SpurgeonBooks
September 11, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

The Lord has helped his people, yes the Lord has been the strength and the help of his chosen. “One who is righteous has many adversities, but the LORD rescues him from them all” (Psalm 34:19), and at this moment, in looking back upon the past, we have nothing to do, but to admire and to adore the constancy of love, the faithfulness of grace.

We thank you, O God, on the behalf of many of your people, our brethren, that you have dealt so well with them. We knew them many years ago when their young hearts first believed in you, and here they are still, the living, the living in Zion, to praise you, as they do to this day. Their feet have sometimes almost gone, their steps have nearly slipped; but you have held them up, and they are walking in their integrity, preserved as only grace could preserve them, living still to praise your name.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“God is… a helper who is always found in times of trouble.” (Psalm 46:1)

When you are in trouble, why do you not tell God all your griefs? Does he not have a sympathizing heart and can he not comfort and relieve you? But you are going about to all your friends, save your best Friend, and telling your tale everywhere except into the bosom of your Lord. Are you burdened with this day’s sins? Here is a fountain filled with blood: use it, saint, use it.

Christ loves to be employed by us. The more burdens we put on his shoulders, the more precious he will be to us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Kibet of Chad.

The Kibet have an oral culture with less than half of the population being able to read or write. Missionaries that go to the Kibet will have to learn Chadian Arabic, the Kibet language, translate the Bible from beginning to end, and teach the people there to read so that they can read the Bible and find life in Christ. This is a monumental task, but God is all-powerful.

Pray that God would give endurance to missionaries going to the Kibet.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Finding Joy in Various Trials*

Sickness. Depression. Loss. Betrayal. Loneliness. Suffering comes in a lot of different forms. But no matter what kind of suffering you’re facing — large or small — we need to be pointed to Jesus. Because he alone can comfort us in every trial.

This 30-day devotional, compiled from Spurgeon’s best teaching on suffering by Geoffrey Chang, will call you to set your eyes on the only thing that can REALLY comfort you: Christ.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“In our sorrows, God's Word is our delight. In our difficulties, it is our guide.” — Charles Spurgeon