When we are weak, then we are strong

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Lord, some of your children think that you are weak, because they are; and suppose that grace will fail them, because the flesh does"

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SpurgeonBooks
August 19, 2024

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on weakness. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, we are very weak, and in ourselves we have no desire to be otherwise, because when we are weak, then are we strong; but we are very strong in you, and we wish to have faith to perceive this. Lord, some of your children think that you are weak, because they are; and suppose that grace will fail them, because the flesh does, but teach them better. May they know that it is just in the death of the creature that they shall find the life of God revealed.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, “I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory,” defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS (NEW FEATURE)

This week, we’re praying for the Grangali of Afghanistan.

This is a people group of 13,000 Muslims in Eastern Afghanistan. As far as we know, there has never been a Christian among them. Christ died for people “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev 5:9), so we know that one day there will be Christians among them.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Grangali.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

You are not the savior (seriously)

Every day, we are taught to believe in ourselves, to understand our strengths, and to manifest greatness. Christianity teaches the exact opposite. We believe that we are weak, sinful, and dying. Our only hope is that salvation would come from outside of us. We fully depend on God’s grace, not just for the beginning of our Christian life, but for all of it.

If you want a beautiful, brief explanation of how understanding your weakness can save your Christian life and deepen your dependence on Christ, check out Weakness is the Way by J.I. Packer. This book unpacks the glorious good news that Christ has said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9). This is a powerful book — I can’t wait to hear how God uses it in your life.