DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
God, set up your eternal throne in our hearts. Help us love you and you alone. We do pray this with our whole hearts; and assist us, we pray, most blessed Redeemer, to show forth your praises in our lives. Sanctify us in our households. May we go in and out before your showing the name and nature of Christ.
Help us in our business, that in all we do among our fellow men we may act as Christ would have us act. Strengthen us in secret; there may we be mighty in prayer. Guard us in public, that neither in act nor word we may slip away from Thee
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching. Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.” (Proverbs 6:20–21)
Solomon tells us to bind the teachings of our parents to our hearts, for they are worthy of loving adherence. Show that you love these things by binding them upon your heart.
The heart is the vital point; let godliness lie there, love the things of God. If we could take young men and women and make them professedly religious without their truly loving godliness, that would be simply to make them hypocrites, which is not what we desire. We do not want you to say that you believe what you do not believe, or that you rejoice in what you do not rejoice in.
But our prayer—and oh that it might be your prayer too!—is that you may be helped to bind these things about your heart. They are worth living for, they are worth dying for, they are worth more than all the world besides; the immortal principles of the divine life which comes from the death of Christ. “Bind them continually upon thine heart.”
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Introducing GodCenteredFamily.org
Today, we prayed for our households, asking that God would help us model godliness to everyone in them. And we saw in God’s Word, that our goal for our parenting is that our children would love God with all of their hearts.
Training children to follow Christ wasn’t just a talking point for Spurgeon, it was a huge lifelong passion for him, starting with his own children.
For Spurgeon, training his children to know Scripture and love God centered on a daily habit of family worship. Despite his busy schedule and the demands of ministry, he gathered his wife and children every day at 6 p.m., to read the Bible, pray, and sing together.
I want to help YOUR family do that today — have a daily time of family worship.
And that’s why I’m excited to tell you about a new project that I’m thrilled to be a part of. It’s called GodCenteredFamily.org.
We’re creating a daily interactive Bible reading plan for parents to use with kids of any age.
I am so excited about this resource and cannot wait to see how God uses it for his glory in your family.
You can learn more and download a free sample at GodCenteredFamily.org