Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Editor’s Note: Spurgeon prayed for the Queen and Parliament. Pray for the national leaders in your own nation, whether or not you agree with them.

Bless our country. God be pleased to rule and overrule. Give peace and quietness among all ranks and conditions of men. God bless those who rule among us. May the Queen be the special object of your divine power. May the blessing of God rest on all our foreign relations. May God bless the United States, and the myriads of our brethren there, and all the scattered in every nation that fear God. Best of all, come, great king of all the earth! Son of God, come quickly. We pray that you would appear to be glorified in the eyes of men, reign among your nations, and end the world’s strife and sin. We ask it for your glory’s sake.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.” (1 Timothy 2:1–2)

No man can be a Christian who does not pray. Yet some good men pray for themselves, yet not for others. Now, the apostle Paul corrects this. Among other things, we should pray for kings and governors, remembering the superiority of our government and the responsibility of governors. We should do this because common humanity, not to say philanthropy and patriotism, requires this of us.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Phunoi of Laos.

The Phunoi practice an ethnic religion, worshiping spirits in forces of nature and their own ancestors. Neither the rocks nor the dead can save them, they need to hear of the one who rose from the dead for them.

Pray that the Phunoi of Laos would turn from sin and embrace Christ.

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