Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth, and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse with joy and intention and hope and all the things.

So grateful to be with you on 1010, the 10th day of October, and hope you're having an awesome day and you're finding hope.

I want to pray for someone who is just hurting today,

and that could be emotional or physical.

Lord Jesus, I lift up my friend who's hurting.

And I pray that you'd be the lifter of their head,

the reliever of their burden, that you would just come near.

And I pray that you would surprisingly provide for them

financially and physically and emotionally.

Even today, even as I'm praying this, I pray that.

Be the God who surprises us.

Be the God who steps in and intervenes.

We trust you and we pray for this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Okay, today I'm reading Ecclesiastes chapter 6 in the World English Bible.

This is what it says.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is heavy on men.

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires,

yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an

evil disease. If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his

years are many, but his soul is not filled with good,

and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he, for it comes

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