Pray with Spurgeon: Let no sin keep us from God

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Is there anything this morning between us and God; does anything darken our light? Lord, take it away. Have we any doubts? Let the light remove them. Does anything trouble us? May we cast our care on you. Have we any dark worry? May we put our worrying away, for sufficient unto the day is its own trouble.

Enable every child of God to have perfect rest in God, this morning. May we be on loving terms with God. May we have not even the least grit in the machinery. May there not be a speck of dust in the eye, for in dealing with God our heart is tender, as the apple of the eye, and the least thing offends. May we be, in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, dear to God, and may God be dear to us.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy…” (Jude 24)

The power to create a world, to divide the rocks, to shake the mountains or set them ablaze is inferior compared with the power that is able to keep us from stumbling. God has been pleased to make us free agents and never deprives us of our free agency. Yet, without the destruction of a quality necessary to our responsible personhood, God is nevertheless able to keep us from stumbling. He could do this by shutting us up in a prison or by depriving us of the power to commit sins. But he does not keep us in that way. He leaves us with every faculty and propensity that we had before. Yet, by some mysterious, omnipotent working of his Holy Spirit—which we can no more understand than we can the blowing of the wind—he keeps his people from stumbling.

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Christmas (or New Years) Gift Idea for a Teen: Help them Know Their Faith

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