Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

As we get ready for Mother’s Day this weekend, “Pray with Spurgeon” is focusing on children and families this week in partnership with God Centered Family.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We pray for our children, that they might be saved. Some of us can no longer pray for our children’s conversion because our prayers are heard already; but there are others who have children who vex them, and grieve their hearts. Oh God, save sons and daughters of godly people. Let them not have to groan over their children as Eli and Samuel did. May they see their sons and daughters become the children of the living God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Start a youth out on his way; even when he grows old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

Have you ever heard of a man who said he did not teach his children the ways of God because he thought they were so young that it was very wrong to prejudice them, and he would rather leave them to choose their own religion when they grew older? One of his boys broke his arm, and while the surgeon was setting it the boy was swearing all the time. The good doctor said, “I told you what would happen. You were afraid to prejudice your boy in the right way, but the devil had no such qualms. He has prejudiced him the other way, and pretty strongly too.”

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