DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Bless today all your people, wherever they are gathered, representing many nations and speaking different languages. We pray for our fellow believers at home and offer our prayers for the entire family of God around the world. May there be a revival of religion in every country, and may the light of Christ break through the darkness of the unreached where he is not yet known. Grant that people may earnestly seek after God, and may your gospel reach out to meet their searching hearts.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.” (John 17:1–2)
Here we have both the universality and the speciality of the work of divine mercy. Christ has power over all flesh, men are in the power of the one Mediator, but there is this special object ever before him: “that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.”
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
How to pray (when you don’t know how to pray)*
We cannot live without prayer. It is not an added bonus to make the Christian life a little bit better — it is our source of life. We cannot survive without it anymore than we could survive without oxygen. Prayer is incredibly important, and so we have to work constantly to strengthen our prayer life.
A practice that’s always been really helpful for me when I don’t know how to pray is praying along with saints from church history.
When my words fail me, the words of saints who have gone before me can encourage my prayers.
(And, as a matter of preference, the older the better!)
And that’s why I’ve been really loving Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church. This book has gathered some of the most biblically-solid, moving prayers from early church history into one incredible volume.
These prayers are arranged by topics, which makes this book a great resource if you need help praying about a specific issue.
Praying along with the early church will not REPLACE your personal prayers — it will STRENGTHEN them.
This is a great time to add this book to your library. I know it will help your prayer life this summer.