Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Psalm chapter 102, verses 1 and 2.

Hear my prayer, O Lord. Let my cry come to you.

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress.

Incline your ear to me. Answer me speedily in the day when I call. These two verses begin a whole

Psalm that lasts for 28 verses of just the psalm is pouring out his heart before the Lord, feeling

weak, knowing he is desperate for God. And there are so many different ways this applies to our

lives, especially during these days of a global pandemic as we continue to pray just each day

on this podcast for specific needs that people are sending in during this COVID-19 crisis.

And please continue to send specific ways we can be praying for you, your family,

your church, your community, your city, just things you see in light specifically of this pandemic.

So send those into radical.net slash prayer request.

But today, especially on this day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, my heart is just

heavy reading through these prayer requests for people who have members of their family,

who maybe once professed faith in God and love for God even, but then have wandered away.

And so I'm just so broken when I hear this Psalm 102 versus 1 and 2 cry out to God in distress, I think about moms and

dads who have prodigal children.

When I think about brothers and sisters who are looking at their siblings and saying, please come back.

And I just want to lead us to pray.

So Daniel, for example, writes, would you please lift up my 26-year-old son, David,

who years ago turned his back on the Lord and now tells me he doesn't believe in God

and he's not even interested.

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