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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh that we might become more completely consecrated! May the image of Christ become more perfect upon us; stamp it deeper into our nature. We trust the image is there; but oh, that it set still deeper into our very selves, that all might see that the seal of the Holy Ghost was upon us, in the likeness of Christ our Lord.

Our Father, will you be pleased today to fill us with delight because of your love. Are we heavy of heart? Let your sweet love lighten the burden; for what after all can there be to trouble the man whom God loves?

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.” (Psalm 23:2)

The pasture is sweet and tender, and there is so much of the green grass that it cannot all be eaten, and the superabundance makes a soft bed for the tired sheep.

Rest, O believer, in the abundant provision of God’s grace! A sheep needs sometimes to lie down. It is as necessary for its health that it should have time to digest its food as that it should have proper and sufficient food to eat.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE*
A Christ-centered audiobook to fill you with joy.

I can’t recommend Spurgeon’s classic book, All of Grace, enough. Spurgeon wrote the book to remind Christians of this wonderful good news of salvation and to invite non-Christians to taste and see.

The new audiobook of All of Grace will definitely do both of things. So, consider buying it as a Christmas gift for yourself — be refreshed by God’s grace at Christmas.

You could also buy it as a Christmas gift for a non-Christian you know. Invite them to take a refreshing drink from God’s well of grace for the first time.

Listen to a free sample of All of Grace on Audible.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

You first plucked us like brands out of the burning. We remember well when you drew us from a corrupt world, and from our own self-righteousness, and we came to Jesus. But you are drawing us still: we feel the sacred bands; we yield to them, glad to do so.

Lord, draw us this morning upward to yourself, nearer than ever. May we not be satisfied with those heights of devotion to which we have attained; but may we reach somewhat higher today.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1)

Not only do I not want at the present moment, but I never shall want. I may sometimes foolishly fancy that I shall come to want, but I never shall as long as God provides for me. How could such a Shepherd as he is, almighty and all-sufficient, ever suffer one of his sheep to lack any good thing? No; “I shall not want.”

All the world beside may want, but I shall not while Jehovah is my Provider. Famine may be sore in the land; there may be neither dew nor rain, and even the brook Cherith may, at last, be dried up; but since “Jehovah is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”

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Good news for Christians: God saves sinners by grace.

In today’s prayer, we praised God for drawing us “from a corrupt world, and from our own self-righteousness, and we came to Jesus.” God’s drawing us from sin and self is the source and summit of the Christian life—we need to root ourselves in the gospel every day.

One great resource for rooting yourself in the gospel every day in Spurgeon’s classic book, All of Grace. This book is a great explanation of how and why God saves sinners like us by grace.

There’s a new audiobook of All of Grace available now that I know will encourage you in the gospel of grace. I hope you’ll check it out and be encouraged.

Listen to a free sample of All of Grace on Audible.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We pray for more love. We have expressed our love, but we are ashamed when we have done so, because, after all, what is our love? It is so faint, so cold to you, compared with your love to us. So we would adore you this morning for the love which you have manifested to us. You loved us before the foundation of the world: yours is no new compassion; for whom you foreknow, you predestined to be conformed to the image of your Son, out of your own pure love to them: and because you have loved us with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have you drawn us, and we feel the drawings now.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord is my Shepherd.” (Psalm 23:1)

What a precious title the psalmist used in speaking of his God! It is right to call the Lord a Shepherd. “The Shepherd of Israel” is a very blessed and true title for him; but “my Shepherd” is best of all. I wish, beloved, that each of you could truthfully say, with David, “‘The Lord is my Shepherd.’ He owns me; and as I am his property, he will preserve me, protect me, provide for me, guide me, and be everything to my weakness, and folly, and necessity, that a shepherd is to a sheep.”

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Feeling weary? Be refreshed in the glorious gospel of God’s grace

Spurgeon’s classic book All of Grace is a much-needed message for our current day. So many Christians (myself included!) are feeling weary and worn down by the weight of our sin. If you’re feeling weary as the year draws to a close—you need to know that God has grace for you.

All of Grace is such a valuable book. Spurgeon’s joy in God’s grace is overflowing from every page. There’s a new audiobook of All of Grace available now. This new audiobook will definitely encourage you.

Listen to a free sample of All of Grace on Audible.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh, Jesus, we love you—we are yours and you are ours. You have given yourself to us, as well as for us; and now we cheerfully give ourselves back to you, feeling that we are never so much our own, as when we are yours; that indeedwe are not ourselves until we are lost in you, but that then have we found our truest humanity when it and all else is surrendered to the all-conquering power of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Praise him for his powerful acts; praise him for his abundant greatness.” (Psalm 150:2)

Here is a reason for praise. In these deeds of power we see himself. These doings of his omnipotence are always on behalf of truth and righteousness. His works of creation, providence, and redemption all call for praise; they are his acts, and his acts of might, therefore let him be praised for them.

His being is unlimited, and his praise should correspond therewith. He possesses a multitude or a plenitude of greatness, and therefore he should be greatly praised. There is nothing little about God, and there is nothing great apart from him. If we were always careful to make our worship fit and appropriate for our great Lord how much better should we sing! How much more reverently should we adore! Such excellent deeds should have excellent praise.

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Great, Christ-exalting music for kids

My family is always on the hunt for Christ-exalting resources for kids, especially music. We recently discovered a new band that has put together some really incredibly rich (and really fun) Christian music for toddlers.

The music from Grace Kids has been playing on repeat at our house for the last few weeks. This band (based out of Grace Fellowship Church in Kentucky) has put out two albums of biblically rich songs for toddlers.

Listen to Worthy of All Praise by Grace Kids on the music streaming service of your choice.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, it has seemed to us impossible not to love you; for you are so supremely lovable, so full of goodness, so perfect. You have manifested yourself to us as love, and shall not love go out towards love?

Especially this morning we feel our hearts warmed towards you in the person of your dear Son. Surely we cannot see him made our brother, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, sympathizing with us, married to us, died for us and risen again for us—we cannot gaze into his right royal face, without feeling our heart melt at the very sight of him.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished.” (Matthew 5:18)

Not a syllable is to be rendered null and void. Even to the smallest letters, the dot of every “i”, and the crossing of every “t”, the law will outlast the creation. The Old Testament is as sacredly guarded as the New. “The Word of the Lord endures forever” (Isaiah 40:8, 1 Peter 1:25).

Modern critics have set themselves an impossible task in their endeavor to get rid of the inspiration of the whole sacred volume, or of this book, or that chapter, or that verse; for the whole shall come forth of their furnace as silver purified seven times.

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Teach the Bible’s story (and the alphabet!) to babies

Kevin DeYoung’s children’s book, The Biggest Story ABCs tells the Bible’s big story through a series of 26 simple events — one for each letter in the alphabet.

The board book has fun, engaging illustrations, and is designed with pages to be easily turned by the littlest hands.

Buy The Biggest Story ABCs today on Amazon.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father in heaven, you are infinitely beyond the grasp of our understanding; but in great condescension, you have brought yourself very near to the grasp of our love, and we trust this morning many of us can say with all sincerity, “you know all things. You know that I love you.” O Lord, it has seemed to us impossible not to love you; for you are so supremely lovable, so full of goodness, so perfect.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Matthew 6:3–4)

Seek secrecy for your good deeds. Do not even see your own virtue. Hide from yourself that which you yourself have done that is commendable; for the proud contemplation of your own generosity may tarnish all your alms. Keep the thing so secret that even you yourself are hardly aware that you are doing anything at all praiseworthy. Let God be present, and you will have enough of an audience. He will reward you, reward you “openly”, reward you as a Father rewards a child, reward you as one who saw what you did, and knew that you did it wholly unto him.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE*
How to enjoy the supremely lovable God in 2021.

If you haven’t read John Piper’s classic book, Desiring God, make plans to do so soon. The point of this book is a simple call to love and treasure God above everything else because he is supremely valuable.

We all want to love and enjoy God more next year, and this book is a great resource to help you along the way. It is full of Bible and is profoundly helpful. Expect to read this book slowly and repeatedly — it’s just so deep!

Buy Desiring God today on Amazon in paperback or Kindle editions.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Father, glorify your Son! In scattering pardon through his precious blood, glorify your Son! In sending forth the eternal Spirit to convince men, and bring them to his feet, Father, glorify your Son! In enriching your saints with gifts and graces, and building them up into his image, Father, glorify your Son!

In the gathering together of the whole company of his elect, and in the hastening of his kingdom, and his coming, Father, glorify your Son! Beyond this prayer we cannot go. Glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you; and to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.” (Psalm 126:5)

Present distress must not be viewed as if it would last forever: it is not the end, by any means, but only a means to the end. Sorrow is our sowing, rejoicing shall be our reaping. We must sow: we may have to sow in the wet weather of sorrow, but we shall reap, and reap in the bright summer season of joy. Let us keep to the work of this present sowing time, and find strength in the promise which is here so positively given us. Here is one of the Lord’s shalls and wills; it is freely given both to workers, waiters, and weepers, and they may rest assured that it will not fail: “in due season they shall reap.”

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Celebrate Christmas with Spurgeon’s best sermons.

Reading Spurgeon’s classic Christmas and Christmas Eve sermons has become one of my favorite family Christmas traditions. These sermons are so rich and help us all remember the wonderful gift of God’s Son that came down at Christmas.

If you want to read Spurgeon’s Christmas sermons, please buy a copy of my new book, Spurgeon on Christmas. This book is a compilation of 14 classic Spurgeon sermons on Christmas, the incarnation, and the birth of our Lord. There’s still time to order and read this book before Christmas!

Buy Spurgeon on Christmas today on Amazon.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
As we are now making intercession; we would, according to your word, pray for all kings and such as are in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives (1 Timothy 2:1–2). We pray for all nations also. O Lord bless and remember the lands that sit in darkness, and let them see a great light; and may the missionary enterprise be abundantly successful.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord told them, ‘The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.’” (Luke 10:2)

The seventy were very few compared with the many that were needed. There were many loiterers about then as there are now, but the laborers were few. There were preachers of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they were not worth a penny a hundred; but the true laborers, who watched for souls, and preached Christ with all their hearts, were very few. It is the same today; and therefore we are to pray for more laborers. A good minister always desires to see more good ministers. In a trade, every tradesman would be glad if those of the same trade as himself would move to another parish; but in the profession of a Christian minister, the more the merrier.

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Christmas Gift Idea: The Bible’s Biggest Story for the Smallest of Hearts

Great Christmas gift idea for any child, grandchild, or parent you know: The Biggest Story by Kevin DeYoung tells the big story in an approachable way for kids of all ages. This book is full of beautiful, creative illustrations and gospel truth. 

The Biggest Story is easy to pick up and hard to put down. The colorful pictures will captivate the youngest children, while the rich symbolism will keep even older kids engaged. This is one of my favorite kids’ books!

Buy The Biggest Story on Amazon (Less than $15 right now!)

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
The Lord grant that the many, for whom there is no special gospel service, but who are wrapped up in self-righteousness, might be brought to hear the gospel of Jesus, that they might come to Christ. God bless this land with more of gospel light; with more of gospel life and love. You will hear us, O Lord! We pray for our servants, for our neighbors, for our kinsfolk of near or far degree, that all might be brought to Jesus. Do this, O God, of your infinite mercy!

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger…” (Ephesians 4:26)

Be angry sometimes. A man that is never angry, surely has no strong convictions in him, for he that is not angry at evil can scarcely be thought to rejoice in that which is good. But anger is a dog that is very apt to bite the wrong persons; therefore, be angry, and do not sin.

Anger is like fire. Let it always be put out at night. “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,” but if it lights during the day, keep it in the grate—keep it in its proper place, for if fire takes hold where it should not, the house may be destroyed, and the man himself may perish in the fire. If you are angry, as you sometimes must be, “be angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down on your wrath.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE*
Address conflict with a biblical strategy

We all face conflict in our homes, in our workplaces, and anywhere else we interact with other sinners like us, so we need a robust and biblical strategy for addressing conflict. One of the best books I’ve read on dealing with conflict in a distinctly Christian way is The Peacemaker by Ken Sande.

We should also aspire to be peacemakers because Christ promised that peacemakers will be blessed (Matthew 5:9). The Peacemaker offers biblical guidance for dealing with conflict and sin, and becoming a peacemaker.

Buy The Peacemaker on Amazon in paperback or Kindle formats.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We pray for our children, that they might be saved. Some of us can no longer pray for our children’s conversion: our prayers are heard already, but there are others who have children who vex them and grieve their hearts. O God, save sons and daughters of godly people. Let them not have to sigh over their children as Eli did, and as Samuel did; and may they see their sons and daughters become the children of the living God.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.” (Ephesians 6:2–3)

It has been observed that God frequently prospers those who have shown dutiful attention to their parents; at any rate, such children are in the right way, and we all know that the way of duty is the way of safety and happiness. On the other hand, unkindness to parents has often been remarkably punished in this life. Nothing shortens life like rebellion against parents. Absalom is a prominent instance of this general rule. Moreover, this sin is a dreadful sign of a graceless nature. He who does not love and honor his father and mother whom he has seen certainly does not love the Lord whom he has not seen.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE*
Christmas Gift Recommendation: Big Theology for Little Hearts

Three of my favorite new books this year have been the “Big Theology for Little Hearts” series, by Devon and Jessica Provencher (published by Crossway). Help your children understand what God is like with these three board books. Each one is full of simple language, engaging illustrations, and rich truth about who God is.

The first three books in this series are available now on Amazon:

• God
• Jesus
• The Gospel

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