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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father, come and grant rest to your children now. Remove the helmet from our brows, take off the weight of our heavy armor for a while, and allow us to experience peace, perfect peace, and be at rest. Oh, help us, we pray, in this moment. Just as you have already cleansed your people in the fountain filled with blood and made them clean, now wash us from any defilement in the water. O Master, wash our feet once again. It will greatly refresh us and prepare us for intimate fellowship with you. Just as the priests washed before entering the holy place, we too desire to be cleansed.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth. “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word.” (John 17:19–20)

Thank God that he will bless our message as well as his own Word! When our message is based on his Word, when we simply explain what Christ has given us to say, then people will believe in him through our message.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Finding peace in the Prince of Peace

We live in a broken, sin-cursed, fallen world. We desperately need the Prince of Peace to come and redeem us, to make his blessing known as far as the curse is found.

In our salvation, this cosmic redemption is already breaking in. Christ is already at work in our hearts to free us from the curse of sin and death.

Life in this fallen world is full of many things to be afraid of, but recognizing the good presence of Christ with us gives us the power to choose faith over fear.

That’s the message of Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves by Trillia Newbell. In this book, Newbell addresses a variety of common fears, and shows how the truth of God’s Word and the power of the gospel can help us overcome those fears with faith.

This book will encourage you, boost your confidence in God, and help you walk with faith every day. I hope you’ll grab a copy today and read it this summer.

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