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Psalm chapter 95, verses 6 and 7.

Oh, come, let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker, for he is our God.

And we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. I love these two verses

in Psalm 95. And the first five verses of this chapter just talk about the greatness of God,

how he is a great king above all gods, how the sea belongs to him,

because he made it, his hands formed the dry land. He is the Lord our maker. And then you get to

verse 7. And it says that this God is like a shepherd to us as his sheep. We are the people of his

pasture. The sheep of his hand. And the imagery there is just the way a shepherd loves and cares for

sheep.

And here's why these two verses particularly stuck out to me today

as we were praying specifically for different people

who are sending in prayer requests of radical.net slash prayer requests.

Again, encourage you to send in specific things that relate to your life

or family or church during this pandemic as we pray for one another specifically and trust that

we're walking through a lot of similar things. And I have heard numerous times now from people saying,

please pray for families who have children with special needs.

Kathy writes,

please pray for families with special needs.

Children, our children often have limited activities.

And now with churches and schools closing and preferred activities like parks and recreational activities close, our special families

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