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Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, we thank you for the liberty which comes to our emancipated spirit through the adoption which you have brought us to enjoy. When we were in servitude the chains were heavy, for we could not keep your law; there was an inward spirit of rebellion; when the commandment came it irritated our corrupt nature and sin revived, and we died.

Blessed be your name. It is a work of divine power and love over human nature, for now we are the children of the promise, certainly not born according to the strength of the human will, or of blood, or of birth, but born by the Holy Spirit through the power of the Word, born again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, children of the Great Father who is in heaven, having his life within us.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’” (Romans 8:15)

We did receive the spirit of bondage once. We felt that we were under the law and that the law cursed us. We felt its rigorous taxation and knew that we could not meet it. Now that spirit has gone, and we have the spirit of freedom, the spirit of children, the spirit of adoption.

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Out of all the wonderful things you will teach your kids this year — don’t forget to teach them who God is.

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