Pray with Spurgeon: God, save me from anxiety

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

The Lord deliver his people from anxiety and care; and, indeed, from caring about themselves! Oh, for power to roll our burden upon our God, and to sing all day long because we are the Lord’s, and he is ours.

O Lord, make us a holy and a happy people. Help us to live the separated life, and to tread it with firm and brave step. Help us, while we wrestle not with flesh and blood, to fight with principalities, and powers, and spiritual wickednesses in high places; and may it be ours to be made, by your Spirit, to triumph in every place, being led in triumph by you from strength to strength, from time to time, from age to age, until the history of your whole church shall be one long triumph for the conquering Lord. Glorify yourself in us, we pray, even in these mortal bodies, and in our spirits which are yours.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Our great fight is not against our fellow men. As Christians, we go not forth armed with sword and shield to fight against “flesh and blood,”— But against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Our battle is against evil wherever it is to be found, against evil in every shape and form. Evil is as much in the world today as it was in Paul’s time, and we must fight against it everywhere. We are not to shut our eyes to it, or try to patch up a compromise with it. Christians are bound to fight against evil principalities, evil powers, the evil rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in high places.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Real Hope for All Your Fears and Anxiety

Today we prayed that God would heal us of our worry and anxiety by teaching us to give all of our burdens to him. Unfortunately, dealing with our anxiety isn’t always so easy, is it? We won’t grow past our worries unless we address them with solid biblical truth.

That’s the point of Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest by Ed Welch. This book offers a biblical perspective on fear and worry in general, and then zooms in to offer biblical hope for some of the most common fears (e.g., fear of money, fear of people, fear of death, etc.).

Reading Running Scared will give you more confidence in God and his Word that will help you deal with your own fears and to share the hope of the Bible with others too. I know this book will encourage you to trust God — I hope you’ll grab a copy.

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