Before we dive into today's Pray the Word, I just want to make a brief note about a shift

that we're going to make in these podcast episodes over the coming days in light of the COVID-19

pandemic that is spreading around the world. In the church that I pastor, we are

obviously shifting what we had planned during this time to focus on some different things in the

word. We've actually been walking through a Bible reading plan that includes 1st Corinthians.

That's why on the Pray the Word podcast episodes, we've been just diving into different verses,

soaking in a whole chapter of 1st Corinthians each week.

But we've also been reading through the Psalms at the same time as a church together.

And so I'm encouraging our folks to, we're going to kind of put a pause on 1st Corinthians

and jump back into just reading the Psalms.

And so what I want to do during these days in the Pray the Word podcast is to pray based

on different Psalms each day.

I love the Psalms.

I love how they speak to all kinds of things that we walk through in this world,

and particularly in difficult, challenging, confusing, surreal times,

just to see the way God's word powerfully speaks to right where we are.

And I've loved reading through the Psalms over the last couple of

weeks as this pandemic has spread and just seeing the sufficiency of God's word every single day.

And so for the time being, we're going to jump into different Psalms each day, starting in Psalm 82

today, just because that's where the Bible reading

and the church that I pastor, McLean Bible Church, we've been walking through.

So for those who are part of our church family, it'll go along with our Bible reading,

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