Praise is our greatest joy

🛐 Daily Prayer: "It is the fullness of our glory, our bliss, our heaven, to wave the palm and cast our crowns with our songs at your feet forever and ever!"

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SpurgeonBooks
July 10, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord, our soul longs to sing a heavenly song with words of fire but we cannot! When shall we be able with wings to mount upward to your throne and having learned some flaming songs that have once been sung by cherubim above, we shall praise you forever? Yet even these songs are not rich enough for your glory. We would sing unto you a new song. We will, when we reach the heavenly shore, become leaders of the eternal music. “Day and night [we will] never stop” praising you (Revelation 4:8) and consider it the fullness of our glory, our bliss, our heaven, to wave the palm and cast our crowns with our songs at your feet forever and ever!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne…” (Revelation 4:10–11)

You perceive that these had on their heads crowns of gold. They reigned with Christ. He was a king, and he made them kings with him. Did you know that we shall judge angels and that when Christ shall come he will bring his people with him, and they will sit upon his throne as co-judges with him? Then the wicked, the persecutors, the revilers of God’s people, shall be brought to judgment, and the saints whom they despised shall be their judges? So that when Christ shall say, “Depart, you cursed ones,” there shall be heard the thundering assent of the ten thousands of his saints, as they say “amen,” and confirm from their hearts the sentence of the all-righteous judge.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Afshari of Iran.

The Iranian government will persecute Christian converts, making ministry difficult.

Pray that God would save his people among the Afshari.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Is God the King of Your Kids?

This week, we’re praying about casting our crowns at the feet of Jesus — an act of humility, acknowledging that HE is the only king of our lives. This is the kind of humble faith that we need to model for our kids. Because we don’t merely want them to accumulate facts and stories about Jesus — we want their entire lives to be marked by Jesus. We want our family to be centered on God and his Word.

Think about that: Is God just a PART of your family’s life or the CENTER of your family’s life?

And the secret to making God the CENTER of your family’s life is making him the center of every day by cultivating daily rhythms, routines, or habits that actually shape our homes around God and his Word.

That’s the heart behind God Centered Family, my series of family devotionals for kids of all ages. These devotionals give parents everything they need to start (or improve) a meaningful daily habit of family Bible reading — helping you put God where he belongs: at the center of your home.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than ever glittered in an imperial crown.” — Charles Spurgeon