Trust our unchanging God

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We look up to you with joyful confidence, knowing that you are an inexhaustible fountain of every good thing."

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SpurgeonBooks
December 16, 2025

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Blessed be your name ever-living God. Our neighbors die; friend after friend departs; few of us have not lost someone dear to us; but you abide the same and there is no end to your years. We come to you. You are as strong to deliver today as you were in our fathers’ time; as true to your promise and as mighty to perform your covenant as when you spoke to Abraham at Mamre (Genesis 18) or worked mightily in the field of Zoan for the children of Israel (Psalm 78:12, 43). You God, are forever strong and mighty. Never can your arm know paralysis, nor can your brow decay. We look up to you with joyful confidence, knowing that you are an inexhaustible fountain of every good thing, and believing that you will supply our need out of the riches of your fullness of glory by Christ Jesus.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)

There is variation and there is the shadow of turning in the sun, but in that greater Father of lights there is neither parallax nor tropic; he is evermore the same and we may go to him with unwavering confidence because he is the same. This is a great blessing to such changing creatures like us: to have an unchanging God!

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Luobohe Miao of China.

The Luobohe Miao, largely resistant to Chinese authorities, live somewhat isolated in mountain villages.

Pray that the gospel would reach every village in China.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Christmas Gift Idea for Readers

If you have a book-worm on your Christmas list, I’m confident that they will enjoy Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, a memoir about a refugee family who had to flee from their homeland in Iran because they were persecuted for their Christian faith.

This is an absolutely breathtaking read that I think will bless and benefit every Christian. It is a great testimony of God’s work around the world and a beautiful example of Christian hope. This book will also expose you to the experience of refugees and persecuted Christians, filling you with compassion.

Nayeri writes from the perspective of his 12-year-old self, and this book is an absolutely incredible patchwork of his own experiences, Persian myths, and cultural analysis.

I know this book will bless you, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“Though you have changed a thousand times, he has not changed once.” — Charles Spurgeon