None but Jesus! None but Jesus!

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We hate the very idea of adding anything to what he has finished."

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SpurgeonBooks
January 05, 2026

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on the sin of trusting in our own works. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

You know how seriously and truthfully 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 proof of our justification and of our acceptance in him.

Dear Savior, if 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 nothing 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)

“For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8–9)

We would be sure to boast if we could. We are boasting people. Humans are a poor mass of flesh and we are largely given to the corruption of pride. We will boast if we can. But if there is any good thing in us, he put it there. It is not for us to boast. It is for him to boast if he pleases.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Aheria in India.

The Aheria are a group of 172,000 people, with likely no Christians living among them. They believe in Hinduism and worship a tribal deity. Most of them have likely never met a Christian.

Pray that God would save many Aheria.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Sin needs quenching in the Savior's blood, not concealing under the garb of religion.” — Charles Spurgeon