Save us from ourselves

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We beg to be delivered from the power of temptation outside of us, but especially from indwelling sin within us"

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August 11, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on resisting temptation.

I would encourage you to have one specific area of sin in your mind as you pray, asking God to deliver you from temptation and purify you throughout the week.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We cry to you to be delivered from the power of sin, to be delivered from the power of temptation outside of us, but especially from indwelling sin within us. Lord, purify our heads, hearts, and hands. If it is necessary that we should be put into the fire to be refined as silver is refined, we would even welcome the fire if we may be rid of the dross. Lord save us from sins of temperament and from sins of our surroundings. Save us from ourselves in every shape, and grant us especially to have the light of love strong within us.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Flee from youthful passions…” (2 Timothy 2:22)

What would you think of a man who went as near as he could to burning his house down, just to see how much fire it would stand? Or of one who cut himself with a knife to see how deep he could go without mortally wounding himself? Or of another who experimented as to how large a quantity of poison he could take?

These are extreme follies, but not so great as that of a man who tries how much sin he may indulge in and yet be saved. Do not attempt such perilous experiments. “Come out from their midst and be separate … and do not touch what is unclean” (2 Corinthians 6:17). Shun with horror Satan’s old compromise; do not dream that you can love the world and yet have the love of the Father in you.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Razihi of Yemen.

The Razihi is a group of 99,000 people with no known Christians among them. They have no Bible in their language, no churches they could attend, and no Christian friends who could share with them. The only way they could hear the gospel is if someone brings it from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Razihi.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Pursue holiness like your life depends on it.

This week, we are praying about resisting temptation. We know that only God can forgive us of our sins, but we must also pursue holiness. In this pursuit of holiness, we need a lot of help along the way.

One of the most motivating and empowering books on personal holiness that I have ever read is The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges. This book will show you the high calling of holiness that God has laid on all of his people (and why it’s so important) while also giving grace-fueled practical guidance on actually pursuing holiness in your own life.

Jerry Bridges is one of my all-time favorite authors. All of his books are worth reading — he does an excellent job at applying the truths of the gospel to the problems we face in life.

This book will equip you and empower you to pursue holiness. I hope you’ll grab a copy and be blessed by it.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The devil himself cannot invent a temptation which is not met in the pages of Scripture.” — Charles Spurgeon