Your Kingdom Come

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Holy Spirit, you alone can do this. All the eloquence of preachers will affect nothing without the Holy Spirit."

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July 01, 2026

Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

May your kingdom come among men. We long to see you reign over every class of society. Oh, that the great ones of the earth would humble themselves before you. Oh, that the multitude would own him who is exalted above the people, the people’s Friend. May your will be done, O Lord, on earth, as it is in heaven. That would make earth a nether heaven. God, may men give up their own wills, their own lustings, their own pride, and follow after God and be obedient.

Holy Spirit, you alone can do this. All the eloquence of preachers will affect nothing without the Holy Spirit. We trust not in music, nor education, nor in civilization, nor in anything but the distinct power of the Holy Spirit working in men to will and to do God’s own good pleasure. Our Father, work with your great power.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10)

Men have thrown off their allegiance to our Father, God; and we pray with all our might that he may, by his almighty grace, subdue them to loyal obedience. We long for the coming of King Jesus; but meanwhile we cry to our Father, “your kingdom come.”

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Awlad Hassan of Sudan.

Being Muslim is tightly connected to being Awlad Hassan. Speaking the hope of Christ to them will require missionaries to overcome centuries-long cultural identities.

Pray that God would open the eyes of the Awlad Hassan.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

See the Lord’s Prayer with Fresh Eyes

This week, we have begun praying through the Lord’s Prayer with Spurgeon.

The Lord’s Prayer is a gift — it keeps our prayers balanced, biblical, and bold. But these words have become so familiar to us that we often miss out how incredibly radical they are.

A great book to see the Lord’s Prayer with fresh eyes is The Lord and His Prayer by N.T. Wright. Wright does a great job at helping readers take a step back to see these words of Jesus with fresh eyes. You’ll be amazed at Jesus’ shocking invitation to prayer.

I know this book will encourage your prayer life this summer — I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK

Spurgeon’s classic devotional, The Chequebook of the Bank of Faith, contains a promise of God for every day of the year. Pray with Spurgeon Plus subscribers receive the daily readings every weekday.

If you want to strengthen your faith in God’s promises (and support this ministry!), subscribe to Pray with Spurgeon Plus here.

“Israel said to Joseph, ‘Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.’” (Genesis 48:21)

Good old Jacob could not be with Joseph much longer, for his hour had come to die. But he left his son without anxiety, for he said with confidence, “God will be with you.” When our dearest family or our most helpful friends are called home by death, we must comfort ourselves with the reflection that the Lord has not departed from us, but lives for us and abides with us forever.

If God is with us, we are in uplifting company even though we are poor and despised. If God is with us, we have all-sufficient strength for nothing can be too hard for the Lord. If God is with us, we are always safe for none can harm those who walk under his shadow. Oh, what a joy we have here! Not only is God with us, but he will be with us—with us as individuals, with us as families, and with us as churches. Is not the very name of Jesus, Immanuel, God with us? Is not this the best of all, that God is with us? Let us be bravely diligent and joyously hopeful. Our cause must prosper, the truth must win, for the Lord is with those who are with him.

May this sweet word be enjoyed throughout today by every believer who turns to “faith’s checkbook.” No greater happiness is possible.

Something to think about today if you’re feeling grieved because people have left you or died: God will never leave you.

LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“The least selfish one is King of this kingdom.” — Charles Spurgeon