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Psalm chapter 100, verse 3.

Know that the Lord, he is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his.

We are his people and the sheep of His pasture.

This Psalm only has five verses, but they are five awesome verses,

just calling us to make a joyful noise to the Lord across all the earth, to worship him, to bring thanksgiving into his gates,

praise into his courts, to give thanks to him to bless his name.

What I love, though, about the very middle of the Psalm, really the heart of the Psalm,

is the way it talks about us as the people God has made, the people who belong to him,

and this Psalm describes us as the sheep of his pasture.

So this Psalm, which depicts God and all of his greatness, depicts him as a shepherd, and we are his sheep.

That verse, that imagery really sticks out to me when I think about all these different

prayer requests that people are sending in in the middle of this COVID-19 pandemic as we are

just asking people on this podcast to send in just each day specific prayer requests that relate

to this pandemic to radical.net slash prayer request knowing that the things that you are likely struggling with,

you're likely not alone in. And so we're just praying for each other. Let me encourage you to

continue to send those in. But I want to read today, especially from Tessa and Nick.

So Tessa writes, please pray for our family, especially my children and me as we ache for my husband in the military,

who is currently so far across the country.

Pray for our transitions between moving and our transition as a family.

And then she goes on just a list specific things for her son as a big brother again,

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