Happy New Year. This is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I have the joy and the privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse.

So excited to start another year with you and really grateful for just kind of the reset that happens when we turn a new corner and come to a new year.

I do have a request for you.

So February 1st will mark our

eighth year at Pray Every Day. And as per usual, I have a testimony episode where I feature you.

And so if you have had an experience with Pray Every Day and you want to share that testimony,

you can go to Maryarydemeuth.com

slash pray and you can record a little testimony and we will add it onto that episode on

February 1st to celebrate eight years. So thanks in advance for doing that. I really appreciate it.

Today I'm reading from Jeremiah chapter 44 verses 1 through 15 in the world English Bible,

and this is what it says.

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdal and at Taffanese and at Memphis,

and in the country of Pathos saying,

Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel says,

You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah.

Behold, today they are a desolation and no man dwells in them because of their wickedness

which they have committed to provoke me to anger,

in that they went to burn incense to serve other gods that they didn't know, neither they nor you,

nor your fathers. However, I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising up early and sending

them saying, oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.

But they didn't listen and didn't incline their ear.

They didn't turn from their wickedness to stop burning incense to other gods.

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