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Psalm chapter 90, verse 17.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us

and establish the work of our hands upon us.

Yes, establish the work of our hands.

This is one of my favorite verses in all the Psalms, just pleading

for God's favor to bless the work of our hands in ways far beyond what we can imagine, just asking

God to cause the work of our hands to bear fruit for his glory,

for others good. So the reason why I choose this first, just as a reminder, we are praying each

day just for specific prayer requests that people are sending in during this pandemic. So feel

free to go to radical.net slash prayer request.

Just put your name, prayer request, and we're just polling from all of these.

I wish we could get to all of them.

Maybe at some point we will, but not if you keep sending things in, which is great, though,

keep sending things in.

But I want to pray today, Psalm 9017, to lead us to pray over

JS. So that's the name this person put in. J.S. is serving in Southeast Asia in a place where

there are few followers of Jesus, where they are working to plant churches.

And J.S. writes, we are seeing the first church ever formed in an impoverished village

where most of these new believers who are coming to Christ, they work in the city dump. They sort and

recycle trash all day in order to eke out enough money for food. This is a scary profession,

J.S. writes, in the midst of a pandemic, but these new believers are displaying hope and joy while sharing the gospel

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