Let's pray.

Father, I pray for the experience of a precious emptiness in all worship that is not worship.

Christians who are worshipping without worshipping.

Muslims who are worshipping without worshipping.

Hindus who are worshipping without worshipping.

Buddhists who are worshipping without worshipping.

Jews who are worshipping without worshiping. Jews who are worshiping

without worshiping.

Jesus.

Come and make all feel this precious emptiness.

And then may your voice be heard, irresistibly, unmistakably, self-authenticatingly, mightly, sovereignly, and create worshippers of Christ.

Pray this in his name. Amen.

Peter Cameron Scott was born in 1867 and he founded the Africa inland mission. As a young man, he went to Africa,

and like so many in that generation, he contracted malaria and had to go back to Britain.

The Lord strengthened his hand, renewed his call, and filled him with joy because this time he went back to Africa, taking his brother, John, with him, and they were

going to be valiant together for their lives. And the fever took John. And Peter stood digging his own

brother's grave and was utterly discouraged.

And then, though he renewed his own commitment to stay, he took fever again and had to go home,

devastated, wondering why.

And God did an absolutely remarkable thing in Westminster Abbey.

He stood there at the grave of David Livingstone,

and on the grave of David Livingstone, the explorer missionary from another

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