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🛐 Daily Prayer: "Since you would show your strength, here is our weakness"

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June 09, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Glorious benefactor, we can meet you on good terms, for we are full of poverty, we are just as empty as we can be. We could not be more abjectly dependent than we are. Since you would display your mercy, here is our sin; since you would show your strength, here is our weakness; since you would reveal your lovingkindness, here are our needs; since you would glorify your grace, here are we, people who can never have a shadow of a hope except through your grace, for we are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, and if you do not magnify your grace in us we must perish for ever.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.” (Psalm 42:1)

He did not seek ease, he did not covet honor, but the enjoyment of communion with God was the urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all luxuries but as an absolute necessity, like water to a deer. Like the parched traveller in the wilderness whose bottle is empty and who finds the wells dry, he must drink or die—he must have his God or faint. Give him his God and he is as content as the poor deer which at length slakes its thirst and is perfectly happy.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Ampanang of Indonesia.

The Ampanang is a tribal group of 41,000 people. They believe in traditional religions for their island and worship their ancestors. They have never heard the name of Jesus and have no Bible in their language.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Ampanang.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Your kids need God this summer.

This week, we’ll be reflecting on our great need for God. While we know that WE really do need God every moment of every day, our parenting often communicates a different message to our kids. Often, Christian parenting is so focused on the law of God that we forget to lead our kids to Christ. We are so busy cultivating obedience (which is good!) that we forget to cultivate faith.

If you want to make God the center of your family and make a daily habit of showing your kids their need for Jesus, I hope you’ll check out God Centered Family, my series of family devotionals on the entire Bible.

I know that we’re entering into the summer months (which might be the worst time to try to start a new family habit), but your kids’ discipleship cannot wait — they need to know Christ! God Centered Family devotionals only require ten minutes each day, a realistic rhythm that you can even fit into the busy summer months.

Your kids need God.

God is revealed in his Word.

You are better equipped than anyone to teach it to them.

We’ll give you everything you need.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“I have a great need for Christ. I have a great Christ for my need.” — Charles Spurgeon