No hope if Jesus doesn’t come back

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We have no righteousness of our own, so, dear Savior, we look up to you."

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SpurgeonBooks
May 22, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We have no merit, no claim, no righteousness of our own, so, dear Savior, we look up to you. We long for some to look for the first time and those of us that have long looked would fix our happy gaze again upon that blessed substitutionary sacrifice where all our hope lies. Dear Savior, we do take you to be everything to us: our sin-bearer and our sin-destroyer. We do not have a shadow of a shade of hope anywhere but in you; your life, your death, your resurrection, your ascension, your glory, your reign, your second coming; these are the only stars in our sky.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2)

It is quite certain that Christ will appear. John does not stop to prove it. He speaks of it as though it were perfectly understood that Christ would again appear, and he mentions what is to be the nature of that appearing. When he comes, he will appear in his glory—not as the man of Nazareth, to be despised and spat upon, but as the “Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Rawas of Indonesia.

The Rawas are very open to outsiders, but missionaries have never brought the gospel to them.

Pray that missionaries would go to the Rawas very soon.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Jesus is coming again. In the same manner as he ascended he will return—that is, really, literally, and in bodily form.” — Charles Spurgeon