What's your plan as we go into the holidays for how you're going to share the

gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

resource called Gospel Threads to help you intentionally share Christ in the

fabric of your normal conversations around the table or the living room or wherever you are,

and we want to send you a free copy of gospel threads to your front door.

Just go to radical.net slash share Jesus.

Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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

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