Prone to wander, Lord I feel it

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Lord, have mercy upon us; but also help us to be strong in faith in the future, giving glory to God."

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SpurgeonBooks
April 01, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We acknowledge that we do doubt. Unbelief comes into the soul. We are quite ashamed of this. We could lie in the very dust to think it should be so. Lord, have mercy upon us; but also help us to be strong in faith in the future, giving glory to God.

We must sorrowfully also lament our hearts, how they wander. If you give us a blessing we begin to idolize it. How often do we set our hearts upon children, upon some beloved object, or upon wealth or upon honor. Somehow or other, this spiritual adultery too often comes upon us and the chastity of our hearts towards our God is violated. Be pleased to forgive us in this thing also. As the hymn says, “Take this poor heart and let it be, / Forever closed to all but Thee,” a fountain sealed. Let the whole heart be Christ’s alone and never stray again.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“… do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.” (Romans 6:13)

Your legs used to carry you to the theater; compel them now to carry you to the house of God even though you are weary. Your eyes could look long enough upon wickedness; let not their lids fall when you are sitting to hear a sermon. Let all the members of your body which once served Satan now serve God. Consider that your whole body is a consecrated temple, and be not satisfied unless the whole of it is reserved for the great God himself.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Idaksahak in Mali.

While the Idaksahak are Muslims, they also believe in spiritual powers around them. They need to know that Jesus is Lord of all the spirits.

Pray that the Mali would be set free from the spiritual powers around them.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Don’t let your kids be the center of your home

In today’s prayer, we confessed the tendency to make our children into idols and to set our hearts on them more than God. It’s very common to see parents make children the center of their lives. While children are a good gift from God, we must not worship them.

The best way to ensure that children aren’t the center of your family’s life is by putting something better at the center. At God Centered Family, we challenge parents to make God the center of your family’s life by making him the center of every day, simply by cultivating the simple habit of reading the Bible together every day.

If you idolize your children, you will do whatever they want. If your family gathers to hear God’s Word every day, you will know what he wants. If your children are the center, then their activities and passions drive your family’s schedule. If family devotions are a daily habit, then we’ll make God’s Word a part of every day (even the busiests ones).

Don’t make your children the center of your life — make God the center of your life. Use family devotionals from God Centered Family to help.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“You must be divorced from your sin or you cannot be married to Christ.” — Charles Spurgeon