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Psalm chapter 89, verse 48,

What man can live and never see death?

Who can deliver his soul from the power of shield?

Oh, what a powerful pair of questions. As a reminder, we are praying each day

in these Pray the Word episodes for specific needs that people send in through radical.net

slash prayer requests. So if you have things you want to send in, just go to radical.net slash

prayer request, put your name right there, just specific ways we can be praying for you, your family,

your church, people around you. And actually, I want to do something a little bit different today.

I want to pull together just different prayer requests that I've

seen into one, specifically people just wanting to pray for family members and friends who don't

have faith in Jesus right now, who don't know eternal life in Jesus that God would use circumstances, this crisis to

open their eyes to the inevitability of death and the beauty of eternal life in Jesus.

This is something I've just been burdened to pray for continually in my time alone with the Lord.

Each Sunday as I'm preaching, just pleading that God would use this temporary pandemic

to bring about eternal peace in many people's hearts. And that's why I'm just drawn to Psalm chapter 89,

verse 48. What man can live and never see death? What a poignant question and so appropriate, so

applicable when we're in the middle of a pandemic, a virus spreading that we haven't

figured out how to stop where we're all reminded of the fragility of life and the inevitability

of death. What man can live and never see death? And the answer is obvious. No one. No one.

Death will come to all of us, unless Jesus comes back first. Death will come to all of us.

So who can deliver his soul from the power of shield? And the picture is no man can do that, but there is one who can do that.

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