Trusting God=Not taking control

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Help us leave the Shepherd to do his own work for them."

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SpurgeonBooks
April 10, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Perhaps, some have come here from a week of great anxiety. Help them to be anxious no longer, to cast their care on the Lord. Oh, do not let the sheep take to shepherdizing, but may they leave the Shepherd to do his own work for them. Oh, deliver your people from attempting to rule the world. Let us not want to drive our Father’s horses but be satisfied to ride with him. Some of your children may have come here in conscious sin; they know they are yours but they equally know they are not what they ought to be. Your presence can light them up; it can spiritualize, it can purify; and they shall feel in the presence of God that the Lord has sanctified them by his truth and himself.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you.” (Isaiah 26:3)

This is our city; by faith, we enter into the purposes and promises of God and there we dwell in perfect peace. The adversary may thunder outside the walls; but what of that? He may threaten that he will capture the city; but how can he do so when the Lord is there? This is a sweet, sweet verse.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Dhund of Pakistan.

The Dhund’s language, Northern Hindko, is spoken by an estimated 8.1 million people around the region. There is no Bible in their language.

Pray that God’s Word would be translated into Hindko faithfully.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.” — Charles Spurgeon