Hey friend, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray through the Bible verse by verse.

Super grateful to have you here today and as I've been doing, I'm reading little bits and pieces of what folks have sent me as I was contemplating, slowing down pray every day.

We're still going. I'm still going to do it.

So this one comes from Meg, and she says,

your podcast is something I do every day right after I wake up. I get my coffee and I start

my day with the Word of God, thanks to your podcast. I started listening six years ago when I moved

to, and I won't identify where that is. Your voice was often the only light in times of darkness.

Over the years, your podcast has exposed me to books of the Bible I didn't even know existed.

Whatever you decide, I get it, but I would really miss you and your team from Meg.

Meg, thank you so much, and I'm so humble that I know you're overseas and just grateful

that pray every day reaches out into the corridors

of the world, not just here in the USA.

So thanks for sharing that.

It really encouraged me to know that God is moving all over the world.

And this little podcast has traveled to nearly every country of the world.

So that is exciting to me.

Also, over 5 million downloads. And this is episode 2,869. So that is amazing that God has sustained me this far to do that

many podcasts. That's pretty crazy if you think about it. All right, today I'm reading from Jeremiah

chapter 16 verses 1 through 13 in the world English Bible. This is what it says. Then Yahweh's word

came to me saying, you shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this

place. For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters

who are born in this place and concerning their mothers who bore them and concerning their fathers

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