Hi, this is David Platt. I want to thank you for praying God's Word with us through this podcast.

And I want to let you know that this series of Pray the Word that we're in right now is a little different from what you may be used to as far as just taking one book of the Bible and going chapter

by chapter successively, one after the other. So let me give a little context behind what we've

been doing and what we'll be doing for the next few months of pray the word. The church that I

have the privilege of pastoring, McLean Bible Church in greater Washington, D.C. We are reading

and studying through the story of scripture together this year. We started in Genesis 1,

and we've been walking through a Bible reading plan that's six days a week where we are covering

the story of the Bible chronologically. So we're going from Genesis to

revelation, and along the way, we're looking at different parts of the Bible as they appear in time,

not just book after book in the Bible, but to see how the whole big picture story of

scripture fits together. This Bible reading plan has about one to two chapters a day.

So for Pray the Word, what I'm doing is taking one verse from that day's reading and letting it

lead us to pray. And then the next day, do the same and the next day. So what that means is

we are not hitting every chapter in the Bible. Over the course of this Bible reading plan, we won't

read every single chapter in scripture, just going a chapter or two a day over the course of

about 10 months. Instead, we're taking select texts and seeing them in chronological order,

not necessarily in the order we see them in the Bible. I hope, though,

that this will be helpful as you're tracking along, even if you're not following along this

Bible reading plan that we're using, which you're more than welcome to use. You can go to McLean Bible,

but I hope this will be helpful for you, even if you're not reading along the Bible reading

plan with our church, which you're not reading along the Bible reading plan with our

church, which you're more than welcome to do. But I hope this will be helpful for you as you track

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