Hey everyone, 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 on this fourth day of November.

Hope you're having a great fall. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, I believe it will be spring in the Southern Hemisphere.

I've been sharing some feedback from listeners. I thought I would share another one today from Sherry. It says, Mary, I've heard you talk about possibly not continuing pray every day. I want you to know that I would miss you terribly, but I do understand. I think it must be so much work to do what you do. And Kristen, I'm sorry, the other person who works on the podcast, his name escapes me right now. That's William. It's okay if you need a break. Let yourself have that. I'm so grateful for the time I've had with you. You've truly helped me become more comfortable in praying. You've shown me that talking to God doesn't have to be hard. In fact, it should be so natural. My selfish hope is that if you do stop pray every day, you might find a different format that takes up much less time to create, maybe a weekly or monthly devotional. You have a gift, and I'd love to keep hearing you pray and talk about Jesus. No matter what you decide, I'm praying for you all, and I'm so blessed to have listened to you for the past 13 months. Thanks, Sherry. Sherry, thank you so much. It's such a kind thing to say, and I'm grateful that my prayer has helped you with your prayer.

And for me, that has, I've learned to pray by listening to other people pray too.

So it's been really cool to have that experience.

Okay, today we're in Jeremiah 8, verses 1 through 11 in the World English Bible, and this is what it says.

At that time, says Yahweh, they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah,

the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of

the inhabitants of Jerusalem out of their graves. They will spread them before the sun, the moon,

and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have served, after which they have walked, which

they have sought, and which they have worshipped.

They will not be gathered or be buried.

They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family,

that remain in all the places where I have driven

them," says Yahweh of armies.

Moreover, you shall tell them, Yahweh says, do men fall and not rise up again?

Does one turn away and not return?

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding. They cling to deceit. They

refused to return. I listened and heard, but they didn't say what was right. No one repents

of his wickedness saying, what have I done? Everyone turns to his course as a horse that rushes

headlong in the battle. Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.

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