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Zachariah, chapter 7, verses 9 and 10, thus says the Lord of hosts, render true judgments,

show kindness and mercy to one another. Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner,

or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.

Wow, is that not a loaded verse with commands from God to His people?

In Zachariah, chapter 7, in ways that we see the people of God and the New Testament

commanded to do the same things. Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another.

And then in verse 10, you see these specific examples of what that looks like. Don't

oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil

against another in your heart. Wow, what if we live this way today? We live today to show

kindness and mercy to other people, specifically to look for ways to care for widows,

for the fatherless, for the sojourner, like the refugee in our midst, the poor, and let none of

you devise evil against another in your heart. In your heart, what a picture devise good

for others. Do not devise evil against anyone else in your heart. So I just want to lead us to

pray that God would help us to do these things. And I'll just trust the Holy Spirit to move

in our hearts to help us see ways we can do this. And as part of this time and prayer,

according to Zechariah 7 and 9 and 10, I want to pray, I want to lead us to pray for the

central Kurdish people of Iraq. I want to read to you the description of them on the unreach

to the day from Joshua Project says, mention in the book of Daniel the needs are the ancient ancestors

of Iraq's central Kurds together with other Kurds and Turkey, Iran, Syria, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

They are the world's largest stateless ethnic group and are hated and undermined by the Arabs

in Iraq. Their unwillingness to unite his work against them time and time again. They have two

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