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Psalm chapter 87, verse 7.

Singers and dancers alike say, all my springs are in you.

Oh, I love this verse. So just a reminder, we are praying each day during this pandemic for prayer requests that different people are sending in, just taking one way we can be praying for someone specifically knowing that person likely represents many others. So if you have something you want to send in, send it into radical.net slash prayer request. Again, radical.net

slash prayer requests. So today, I want to read what a Linda sent in. Linda said I have

bipolar and Asperger's, but I'm also in a vulnerable category because I had the lower right

lobe of my lung removed two years ago. So I'm also in a vulnerable category because I had the lower right lobe of my lung removed two years ago.

So physically in the more vulnerable category, but Linda writes, I'm struggling with anxiety due to my

mental illness and I need prayer for focusing on the peace that's found in God's grace. I feel isolated because I can't be

with my church family right now. So please pray for me and others afflicted with mental illness that we

might seek God during these days. Pray that Christians would reach out to those suffering with mental illness

so they can know God's grace through Christ. I'm so thankful for Linda's willingness to share

this on so many different levels, and I know Linda is not alone. And there are many people like Linda all around us

in our church communities that we are scattered from,

but even our neighborhoods just right around us.

And so I want to lead us to pray for Linda

and many others like Linda

and for all of us that we would be sensitive to ways that we can encourage

men and women like Linda who are struggling in different ways right now, particularly due to mental illness.

And I just want to bring Psalm 87-7 to bear on this picture of this soul.

Whole Psalm is basically a song about the dwelling place of God in the city of Jerusalem,

in Zion, and just the significance of that place, because that's where God had chosen

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