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Psalm chapter 86, verse 5.

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding and steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Just as a reminder, we are praying each day during this global pandemic for specific

needs that people have sent in. And I want to invite you. We've already received a lot coming

in, but radical.net slash prayer request. If there's something specific, we can pray for you, for your family, for your church, your community.

We're just picking one of those things each day and praying the word based on one of those things.

So today I want to read what Cleo sent in.

Cleo said, please pray for my daughter, Sheena, who is a nurse in New York, for God's

protection in the midst of this pandemic, and also for her salvation, that in the midst of

this uncertainty, she will come to know Christ in a personal way.

We are reading on the news right now a lot about New York and the number of

cases there and the stress on hospitals and hospital workers like Sheena. And so I just want us to

apply Psalm chapter 86 verse 5 to that whole picture and particularly to Sheena as well as many others

like Sheena, that she and others would know that the Lord is good and forgiving and abounding

in steadfast love to all who call upon him. This is one of my prayers that I've just been burdened with every day during this pandemic

that we would, amidst all of our looking at our phones or on our tablets or wherever we look

to find sources of information and we're seeing news headlines and

updates. And we're always quick to look at those updates. And yes, it's good to be well-informed.

But we're looking to all kinds of sources. The question is, are we looking to the one source

who's able to end this pandemic? Are we looking to God? Are we calling upon God? And that's part of what I hope,

this podcast and other things that are going on right now, even as I think about the church

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