Our distractions and God’s undistractable love

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We often turn aside, but still our heart is right toward you and your Covenant"

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SpurgeonBooks
December 12, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our God, we love you; we can say from our very hearts that we love you. We are not what we ought to be. We often turn aside, but still our heart is right toward you and your Covenant; though we are weak, we are still pursuing you. Through infinite mercy, our faces are still Zionward; our confidence is nowhere but in our God. “My salvation comes from him” (Psalm 62:1). Glory be to the name of the Lord forever and ever and ever!

Our hearts cannot feel all they ought to feel, nor can our tongues express the thousandth part of the emotions of our inmost nature, as we look back upon the way whereby the Lord our God has led us; how, in the splendor of his mercy, he has kept us and would not let go away from him; how he has fed us and would not allow us to feed upon the husks that the swine do eat.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her.’” (Luke 10:41–42)

Our religion is not of a first-class order if it is altogether looking at our practice and not at the finished and perfect work of Christ. Martha, Martha, Christ does not stand in need of you half as much as you do of him. It is proper for you to think how you may economize time to attend the house of prayer, and how you will bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and how you will save a little money to give to the poor or to Christ’s church. All these things are right. It is good for you to = do them. But remember, Christ did more for you.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Manga Kanuri of Nigeria.

A few Manga Kanuri have become Christians this year — a church needs to be planted among them.

Pray that God would give wisdom to the Christians working among the Manga Kanuri, that they would not compromise God’s design for the church in any way.

TOMORROW IN THE WEEKEND EDITION

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  • Prayer for the Church — Prepare for Sunday with this prayer for the worship service

  • Q&A with Spurgeon — Why was Christ born of a virgin?

  • Spurgeon’s Letters — A Christmas letter that Spurgeon sent to his sister Caroline

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Sitting silently at the feet of Jesus is of more worth than all the clatter of Martha's dishes.” — Charles Spurgeon