Romans chapter 3 beginning in verse 9.

What then? Are we better than they?

Not at all, for we've already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin.

As it is written, there is none righteous, not even one.

There is none who understands. There is none who seeks for God. All have turned

aside together they have become useless. There is none who does good, there is not even one.

Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving.

The poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their paths.

And the path of peace have they not known.

There is no fear of God before their eyes. Father, I ask for your help now as we try to unfold this word faithfully.

I pray for hearts that are Lydia-like, opened to give heed to the

gospel and I pray for special anointing so that I don't speak any error and so that there's a biblical balance in proportion to what I say and a razor sharp edge that severs calluses that are hindering hearing and understanding.

And I pray that it would be sharper than a two-edged sword and penetrate to the division of soul and spirit bone and marrow and leave none of us unchanged and some of us believing for the first time and saved.

Sustain your people by this word, I pray, and gather in your people by this word,

and glorify your name by this word, and mobilize witness with this word,

heal marriages with this word. Heel marriages with this word.

Bring children home with this word.

Give guidance with this word.

Remove loneliness with this word, take depression and darkness off of hearts with

this word and 10,000 other blessings that you have in mind with your extraordinary grace over this word. I pray in

Jesus' name. Amen.

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