The risen Jesus and his great love

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We can have fellowship with God because we are raised up together with Christ”

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SpurgeonBooks
April 16, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, be pleased to reveal yourself to your servants. Oh, for the uplifting of the veil, for the drawing near of the people who are made glad by the blood, for the speaking of God to the soul, and the speaking of our soul unto God. Oh, to communicate with the Eternal; we can have this kind of fellowship because we are raised up together with Christ and have been brought to sit in the heavenly places with him.

Oh savior, grant us a glimpse of your great love. One flash of your eye is brighter than the noonday. One word from your lips will be sweeter to us and more full of music, than the harps of angels. Grant it to every one of your children all over the world, both to the sick and to the dying. Oh how gloriously will they die!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples the news. Just then Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ They came up, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.” (Matthew 28:8–9)

These holy women were not Unitarians; knowing that Jesus was the Son of God, they had no hesitation in worshiping him. There must have been a new attraction about Christ after he had risen from the dead, something more sweet about the tones of his voice, something more charming about the countenance that had been so marred, at Gethsemane, and Gabbatha, and Golgotha. Perhaps these timid souls clung to their Lord through fear that he might be again taken for them, so “they held him by the feet, and worshiped him,” fear and faith striving within them. He said he would rise from the dead, and he did; he says that his people also shall rise, and they shall.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Palembang in Indonesia.

The Palembang have a high view of marriage. They believe a wife’s job is to make a husband’s home feel “like heaven.” They do not have the true hope of heaven.

Pray that they would know that marriage is a picture of Christ’s love for the church, whom he will bring to a truer and lasting heaven.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Jesus Really Rose From the Dead (So What?)

This week, I’ve shared several apologetic resources to help you defend the resurrection of Jesus. But why does it matter that Jesus rose from the dead? While we love and embrace the cross, we often don’t give the resurrection of Jesus very much attention. But when we read the New Testament, we see that the resurrection of Jesus is actually just as crucial to our salvation as the cross.

If you want help learning about WHY the resurrection was so important, check out Risen: 50 Reasons Why the Resurrection Changed Everything by Steven D. Mathewson. You’ll walk away from this book with an increased understanding of why Jesus’ resurrection is so important AND increased hope, because you’ll better understand the benefits of Jesus’ resurrection.

This book will strengthen your faith, so I hope you’ll check it out today.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK

Spurgeon’s classic devotional, The Chequebook of the Bank of Faith, contains a promise of God for every day of the year. Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers receive the daily readings every weekday.

If you want to strengthen your faith in God’s promises (and support this ministry!), subscribe to Pray with Spurgeon Plus here.

“On that day, the words HOLY TO THE LORD will be on the bells of the horses.” (Zechariah 14:20)

It will be a happy day when all things shall be consecrated and the horses’ bells shall ring out, “holiness to the Lord!” That day has come to me. Do I not make all things holy to God? When I put my clothes on or take them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of Christ Jesus, my Lord? Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh, that today my clothes may be vestments; my meals, sacraments, my house, a temple; my table, an altar; my speech, incense; and myself, a priest! Lord, fulfill your promise and let nothing be common or unclean to me.

Let me expect this in faith. Believing it to be so, God will help me make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord may take an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether his own. I resolve to prove it to be his by the way I use it today. From morning until evening, I long to order all things by a happy and holy rule. My bells shall ring, why should they not? Even my horses shall have bells, who has such a right to music as the saints have? But all my bells, my music, my happiness, shall be turned to holiness, and shall ring out the name of the happy God.

Something to think about today if you’re feeling like an activity is meaningless: Nothing is secular and everything is sacred when you belong to Jesus.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“On other people's graves it is written, 'Here lies so-and-so,' but on Christ's tomb it is recorded, 'He is not here.'” — Charles Spurgeon