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🛐 Daily Prayer: "You always hear those who approach you through that ever blessed name"

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SpurgeonBooks
August 21, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our God, we come to you by Jesus Christ who has gone within the veil on our behalf and always lives to make intercession for us. Our poor prayers could never reach you were it not for him, but his hands are full of sweet perfume which makes our pleading sweet with you. His blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat, and now we know that you always hear those who approach you through that ever blessed name. We have deeply felt our entire unworthiness even to lift up our eyes to the place where your honor dwells. You have made us die to our self-righteousness. We pray now because we have been raised from the dead; we have received a new life and the breath of that life is prayer.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

This text involves a negative truth—there is no salvation outside of Christ—and a positive truth—there is salvation in Jesus Christ by which we must be saved. Biblical faith is intolerant. Israel’s God put this as one of his first commandments, “Do not have other gods besides me” (Exodus 20:3). And he would not allow them to pay the slightest respect to the gods of any other nation. All other nations were tolerant of one another’s gods, but the Lord’s people could not be so. The Christian faith is just as intolerant: “There is salvation in no one else.” Other religions may admit that there is salvation in fifty religions besides their own, but we admit no such thing. There is no true salvation outside of Jesus Christ.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Bokoruge of Chad.

The Bokoruge live in many tribes and villages throughout eastern Chad and western Sudan.

Pray that the good news of Jesus would reach every home.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

A solidly-biblical path to grow in godliness*

Christians don’t fight sin or grow in godliness by mere force-of-will. Our path to growing starts by acknowledging our own powerlessness — we need God himself to change us.

And that’s because none of our actions are isolated — they come from our hearts, which are fed and nourished by many different influences.

Recently, I’ve been really enjoying Discovery, which is a Bible study curriculum for men struggling with sexual impurity. The study is so powerful because it RECOGNIZES that sin is complicated, our actions come from our hearts, and the only path to true and lasting change is NOT to start with behaviors (how to stop sinning/start doing the right thing), but to address our hearts.

The Discovery Bible study will help you understand and address your own heart.

And, by God’s grace and the kindness of HarvestUSA (the ministry that produced this study), the entire curriculum is available for free. I hope you will check it out and use it to grow and help others too.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The name of Jesus Christ is hell's terror, heaven's delight, and earth's hope.” — Charles Spurgeon