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🛐 Daily Prayer: "We look forward to heaven with this as one of its highest joys, that we shall be without fault before the throne of God,"
SpurgeonBooks
April 12, 2024
Pray with Spurgeon
Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks
Thanks for praying with us this week. (I’m taking a break from the weekend edition in April.)
This week, the newsletter focused on growing in godliness. Read all the newsletters here.
Next week, we’ll focus on Jesus’ washing our feet.
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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We cry to you for holiness. You know we do not expect to be saved by our holiness but we do look upon it as salvation, to be saved from sin, to be delivered from corruption. To be emancipated from the bondage of evil is the great longing of our spirit, and we look forward to heaven with this as one of its highest joys, that we shall be without fault before the throne of God, and that nothing that defiles shall ever enter there.
O Lamb of God, by whom we have been redeemed from sin and washed from uncleanness, will you graciously daily wash our feet, that we may be clean everywhere, and may enter in through the gates into the city, and be among those of whom it is written—“They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.” (2 Peter 3:18)
There cannot be any grace except as we know Christ. And there can be no growth in grace except as we grow in our knowledge of Christ. We may always test whether we are growing by asking this: Do I know more of Christ today than I did yesterday? Do I live nearer to Christ today than I did a little while ago? For increase in the knowledge of Christ is the evidence as well as the cause of true growth in grace.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
Fuel your fight with sin by understanding God’s plan
This week, we prayed desperately, asking God to help us in our struggle with sin. God is at work to redeem you — to rescue you out of sin and bring you all the way home to him. To learn more about God’s grand plan to redeem his people from sin forever, check out Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on Change by Matt Chandler. This book explains God’s plan to destroy your idols and purify your heart and how it fits into the grand story of the Bible.
If you read this book, you will better understand why you sin, what to do about it, and why you can have unshakeable hope in Jesus through it all. I hope you’ll grab a copy today!
