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Mighty Jesus, washing our feet

Mighty Jesus, washing our feet

🛐 Daily Prayer: "You hold the waters in the hollow of your hand, you measure heaven with your hand; Lord, do you wash my feet?"

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May 04, 2026

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on Jesus washing our feet. Typically, the prayers in the newsletter are excerpts taken from several sources. This week, all of the prayers will come from one sermon on John 13. In the middle of this sermon, Spurgeon broke out in an extended prayer, praising the grace of Jesus for this act of humility. I’m so thankful to share this prayer with you. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord! King! Master! God! Everlasting! Eternal! Almighty! King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Do you—do YOU wash my feet? You call the stars by their names, and they shine by your light. Constellations come forth in their season at your bidding. You guidest the North Star with his sons! The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; you sit upon the circle of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth are like grasshoppers. You hold the waters in the hollow of your hand, you measure heaven with your hand; Lord, do you wash my feet?

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He came to Simon Peter, who asked him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’” (John 13:6)

Oh! think of this, you spiritual men; think, until your hearts melt with love. No one else could cleanse us. The infinite God must take away the infinite blackness and filth of his people’s sin! What a stoop this is! Let us lift up our eyes and wonder; let us lift up our voices and praise his name, that he should ever wash our feet.

It is not the part of a master to wash feet; it is servile, menial, humiliating work. Yet this, which was the lowest of all offices in the east, is that which the Savior undertakes—not in fiction and metaphor, but in reality, for every one of us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Tagale of Sudan.

This ethnic group has 130,000 people and zero Christians among them as far as we know. They haven’t rejected Jesus, they have never heard of him in the past and don’t have any way of hearing about him unless someone comes from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Tagale.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

God’s Foot-Washing Grace Really is Amazing

This week as we reflect on Jesus washing our feet, we are rejoicing in the glorious ways that God has washed all of us, forgiving us of our sins. This really is a wonderful, glorious reality, but often, we become so used to the fact of God’s grace that it stops being “amazing” to us.

One resource that has helped me recapture the wonder of grace is Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy by Paul Tripp. This book features 52 short devotionals (one for every week of the year) on Psalm 51. This is an incredible resource to help you remember the horrors of your sin and the wonders of God’s amazing grace. I hope you’ll buy a copy and enjoy mediating on God’s unending mercy with me.

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