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Genesis chapter 9, verse 7, and you be fruitful and multiply.

Increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.

I point this verse out in particular in light of the connection with Genesis 1-28,

when God said, after creating Adam and Eve, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

Now in Genesis chapter 9, like right after the flood and things are kind of starting

over with Noah and his family, God says the exact same thing. You be fruitful and multiply,

increase greatly on the earth, multiply in it. Again, God wants his grace, his goodness in his image bearers to fill the earth.

He wants human life to flourish on the earth, multiplying, and his blessing in the middle

of all of that. This is just the goodness of God that he

desires to fill the earth with his goodness, with his blessing, with his grace. And in Genesis 1,

we thought together on that day when we were looking at that passage, we prayed together

about how that is happening even today, how his grace and blessing flows throughout the earth

as we make disciples as we multiply the life of Christ, this renewed life in Jesus, reconciled to God. We want to multiply across the earth.

So I try on most days to pray for an unreached people group each day. I oftentimes use the Joshua

Project app toward that end. And so today, uh, the people group that's highlighted is the

Fulacunda people in Senegal. The Fulacunda people in Senegal are, are a Muslim people group,

uh, one point, that 1.8 million of them in Senegal. They are classified as

unreached by the gospel. There are only a few, like a handful of known followers of Jesus

among the Fulakunda tribe. And there's a lot of barriers to the gospel. It's hard to get the gospel

to the Fulakunda in Senegal because of not just their Muslim beliefs, and even strongly held

Muslim beliefs,

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