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First Chronicles, chapter 16, verses 23 through 26.

Sing to the Lord, all the earth, tell of his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

For great is the Lord and greatly to be

praised. And he is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the Lord made the heavens. I can keep going. I love First Chronicles chapter 16, this song of praise to God as the

ark is brought into Jerusalem and David just erupts in worship. And we see much of this language

in the Psalms. But I want to lead us today to pray according to these verses in particular.

So let me say the first couple of verses again, sing to the Lord all the earth, tell of his

salvation from day to day, declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among

all the peoples.

I'm reading this.

I'm thinking about just a couple of days ago. I was with a group of

18, 19, 20 year olds, who, hundreds of them, who were gathered together for three months

in training to proclaim the gospel, and the next three months they're going to go to different

places around the world to spread the gospel.

And during this training time, they spend three hours a day from eight to nine in the morning and from one to three in the afternoon praying together in worship for the spread of God's glory

among all the nations. And we were praying for just

listing out all kinds of different nations. So I want to do that with you. I mean, this is only

like a couple of minutes. Like, what would it look like if we were praying in our lives,

and our families and our churches for hours just all the time praying this what might

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