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

Psalm chapter 117 is the shortest chapter in the entire Bible, certainly the shortest Psalm.

It's two verses.

So I'm going to read, both of them.

Whole chapter.

Praise the Lord, all nations. Extole him all peoples. For great is his steadfast love toward us.

And the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord.

There is so much here.

I'm preaching on this passage today.

So I don't have time to preach on it.

I just want to pray it here, but I want to pray it specifically in light of something that kicked off on Friday night at Secret Church that Radical will be

talking a lot more about even this coming week, but a new initiative in Radical called

Urgent, identifying and coming alongside indigenous believers in places in the world where you see the most extreme,

urgent, physical, and spiritual needs. So just picture physical suffering, lack of food, clean water, medical care, freedom, slavery and trafficking.

So physical suffering on top of spiritual need, namely places in the world where the gospel's not even gone,

where people don't even know the name of Jesus.

So wherever those two kinds of needs collide, that's where we are working.

With brothers and sisters who live in these places, we've identified 12 initial countries.

I'm just going to list them off where we are doing work.

Syria, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Laos, Lebanon, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia, and Nepal.

So that's where we're starting, focusing on brothers and sisters in those places

who are making the gospel known.

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