DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We thank you, O God, for providing us with a Throne of Grace, which is sprinkled with the precious blood of Jesus. This allows us, the guilty, to come without fear of your wrath breaking forth upon us. We come before you with all our hearts, and we ask you to draw us towards you so that we may run after you. Our desire is towards you and to your fear, but we need the Holy Spirit’s enablement because we are lame, broken, and ready to perish without your help. Please breathe into us the prayers that we need to offer to you and write on our hearts the words we need to speak in your presence.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.” (Psalm 107:21)
It is marvelous that men can be restored from sickness and yet refuse to bless the Lord. It would seem impossible that they should forget such great mercy, for we should expect to see both themselves and the friends to whom they are restored uniting in a lifelong act of thanksgiving. Yet when ten are healed it is seldom that more than one returns to give glory to God. Alas, where are the nine? When a spiritual cure is wrought by the great Physician, praise is one of the surest signs of renewed health. A mind rescued from the disease of sin and the weary pains of conviction, must and will adore Jehovah Rophi, the healing God, yet it were well if there were a thousand times as much even of this.
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God hears your prayers, not because you’re good enough (but because Jesus is)
Today we prayed, knowing that our only hope in prayer is that we would be covered in the righteousness of Christ. This is our only hope with which to approach God. This should give us great hope and confidence as we pray — we do not come in our own name, but in the mighty name of Jesus!
A great, refreshing book that has really helped me learn this lesson is A Praying Life by Paul Miller. This book makes clear that our only hope of acceptable prayers is the blood of Jesus.
A Praying Life is a great, encouraging book on Christian prayer. Reading this book has cultivated Scripture-saturated prayers of childlike faith in my life. Miller describes prayer in a way that is thoroughly biblical and incredible desirable.
I hope A Praying Life will help you deepen your prayer life this fall.
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