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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 and

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 Podcasts 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 write 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 passed from 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 but certainly for the many who listen to this podcast who are not a part of the

McLean Bible Church family I hope that praying through the

Psalms will be a particular encouragement during these days.

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