DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O God, help us to live towards you in all devotion, confidence, obedience, resignation and simple childlike trust. Help us to love you with all our heart and soul and mind. Enable us also to live to our fellow men according to your word, loving our neighbor as ourselves. Save us from all unneighborly tempers, all hard thoughts, all slanderous words. Deliver us from bearing any anger in our heart, from everything that is ungenerous or unkind please save us, and let the law of love be written on the fleshy tablets of our renewed heart, and be carried out in all the thoughts and words and acts of our lives.
Especially help us to master our tongue; for if that be bridled the whole body will be manageable. Keep us, O God, when we are in company, and equally preserve us when we are in secret. Help us to keep the door of our lips; and grant that when that door is opened there may not come out of it sweet water and bitter, may we not both bless and curse, but may we speak that which is good to edification, and may our speech be also seasoned with salt.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“… and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 3:15)
Brethren, to be prepared for the coming conflict, we have only to preach the gospel, and to live the gospel; and also to take care that we teach the children the Word of the Lord. This last is especially to be attended to, for it is from the mouth of babes that God will still the enemy. It is idle to dream that human learning must be met by human learning, or that Satan must cast out Satan. No.
Lift up the brazen serpent wherever the fiery serpents are biting the people, and men shall look to it and live. Bring the children out, and hold them up, and turn their little eyes towards the divinely-ordained remedy; for still there is life in a look—life as against the varied venoms of the serpent which are now poisoning the blood of men.
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Teach your kids to LOVE the Bible (not just read it)
In today’s verse of the day, Spurgeon exhorted us to turn the eyes of our children to trust and treasure God by teaching them his Word. If you’ve read this newsletter for a while, you know that this is a topic I’m really passionate about.
And that’s why I’ve been LOVING a new kids book, Read it, See it, Say it, Sing it by Hunter Beless. This book is a really fun, rhyming celebration of the Bible that will really encourage your kids (and you!) to treasure God’s Word. My kids have really enjoyed reading it, and since first reading it, the topics and phrases from the book have come up often in our conversations.
Read it, See it, Say it, Sing it will help your kids approach the Bible with excitement and creativity, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today.
(This book was sold out for several weeks and is FINALLY back in stock — so I hope you’ll grab a copy now, while you still can!)