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🛐 Daily Prayer: "The grace of the eternal past is a matter of faith, but here is something within our grasp and enjoyment. The other we believe, but this we actually and literally receive."
SpurgeonBooks
March 15, 2024
Pray with Spurgeon
Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks
Thanks for praying with us this week! (Don’t miss the weekend edition tomorrow!)
This week, the newsletter focused on the forgiveness of sins. Read all the newsletters here.
Next week, we’ll focus on God the Father.
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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We present ourselves before the Throne of God, in the name of Jesus Christ our great High Priest. And first, we ask for pardon through the blessed blood. You have already pardoned some of us; give us a new sense of it. Continue to pardon us; let us feel as if we came every day to the “fountain filled with blood,” and as if the washing were new every day.
But have pity upon those who have never been pardoned. Hear the cry of sinners as they seek your face, and wherever there is a penitent spirit, be pleased speedily to send it relief and let forgiveness of sin be felt wherever the burden of sin weighs down the spirit.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.” (Ephesians 1:7)
The apostle spoke of present blessings, matters of actual experience. The grace of the eternal past is a matter of faith, but here is something within our grasp and enjoyment. The other we believe, but this we actually and literally receive. We do not hope for it, but we have it. We do not merely think so, but we know we have it. We are redeemed. We are free from bondage. We are forgiven and are no longer under condemnation.
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