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Psalm chapter 129, verse 2.

Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

As we pray each day during this pandemic for different prayer requests that people are sending in at radical.net slash prayer request that deal with this pandemic.

It's been sobering, I hope, encouraging to pray for the specific needs and specific people's lives, knowing that each individual

that sends a prayer request in represents in so many ways, so many different people

struggling with similar things.

Today, though, I want us to pray for people who likely are not listening to this

podcast and would not be able then, and in most cases would not be able to send something in,

even if they were. So I want us to pray specifically in light of Psalm 129 for our persecuted

brothers and sisters around the world. I think about brothers and sisters in Christ we have

in North Korea, in Somalia, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in places in the world where there's little access

to resources like, pray the word, where there might even be government or other restrictions that keep Christians

from ever being exposed to a resource like this.

And I just want to lead us to pray as I read Psalm 129 about the affliction that is coming to the psalmist and really persecution and

harm that is being done toward the psalmist and how that has been the case for a long time

and the psalmist says greatly have they afflicted me from my youth yet

they have not prevailed against me.

And I just want to lead us to pray

on behalf of those who are experiencing

affliction and attack.

So on top of affliction associated with a global pandemic, that there is

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