None but Jesus!

🛐 Daily Prayer: "All our hope is centered in the atoning sacrifice and in the risen savior, who has gone into the glory as the testimony of our justification, and of our acceptance in him."

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April 22, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

You know with what enthusiasm and depths of truthfulness we can say, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.” We again declare that all our hope is centered in the atoning sacrifice and in the risen savior, who has gone into the glory as the testimony of our justification, and of our acceptance in him. Oh, dear Savior, if in the course of years we have tried to add anything to the one foundation, if unconsciously we are relying now upon our knowledge, our experience, our Christian effort, we desire to clear away all this heap of rags and get down on the foundation again. None but Jesus! None but Jesus! Our soul rests in none but Jesus; and we hate and loathe, with our inmost nature, the very idea of adding anything to what he has finished, or attempting to complete what is perfect in him.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Everyone who believes is justified through him from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.” (Acts 13:39)

When men came, according to the law of Moses, they brought a bull which they offered for their sin. This done, with what feelings would they depart from the altar? Conscious of guilt the man came; convinced that he had complied with a statute, he went away. But his conscience was not cleansed. The stain was not removed. Though the blood of the beast quieted some of his scruples and eased some of his terrors, it did not, could not, give him perfect peace. He must have known that the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer could not take away sin, neither could it atone for its guilt or eradicate its venom. By so much is the gospel of Christ better than the law of Moses. If you will come and trust Christ, you shall feel that you are no longer guilty. Up until now you have lived in guilt and sin, henceforth the whole force of sin upon the conscience shall be gone. You shall have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Jat of Pakistan.

The Jats live in small villages throughout Pakistan and India. Family is very important to them. The message of Jesus, which often means that “a man’s enemies will be the members of his household” (Matthew 10:36) has not been proclaimed among them.

Pray that the gospel would spread to every Jat village.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The frown of God no longer rests upon me; but my Father smiles.” — Charles Spurgeon