Pray with Spurgeon: God will provide, we do not need to worry

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, give us day by day our daily bread; provide for your poor people; let them not think that the provision for themselves rests fully on themselves; but may they cry to you, for you have said, “Your bread shall be given you, your waters shall be sure.” If we follow you, if you lead us into a desert, you will cover our path with manna. May your people believe this, and let them have no worry, but like the birds of the air which neither sow nor gather into barns, and yet are fed, so may your people be.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.” (Psalm 19:1)

It is not merely glory that the heavens declare, but the “glory of God,” for they deliver to us such unanswerable arguments for a conscious, intelligent, planning, controlling, and presiding Creator, that no unprejudiced person can remain unconvinced by them. The testimony given by the heavens is no mere hint, but a plain, unmistakeable declaration; and it is a declaration of the most constant and abiding kind. Yet for all this, to what avail is the loudest declaration to a deaf man, or the clearest showing to one spiritually blind? God the Holy Spirit must illuminate us, or all the suns in the milky way never will.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Real Hope for All Your Fears and Anxiety

Today we prayed that God would help us to note worry or doubt. Unfortunately, dealing with our fears isn’t always so easy, is it? We won’t grow past our fears unless we address them with solid biblical truth.

That’s the point of Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest by Ed Welch. This book offers a biblical perspective on fear and worry in general and then zooms in to offer biblical hope for some of the most common fears (e.g., fear of money, fear of people, fear of death, etc.).

Reading Running Scared will give you more confidence in God and his Word that will help you deal with your own fears and to share the hope of the Bible with others too.

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