Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

The last time I was reading through this and my Bible reading getting to the end and saying there's a lot I don't understand here but this conclusion I do understand first 23 in the end of all things God is going to show his greatness and his holiness is going to make himself known in the eyes of many nations and they will know that he is the Lord.

And I know for those of you who follow along this podcast you know we pray all the time for unreached people groups for the nations for the tribes for the languages the peoples who yet to be reached with the gospel who have little to know knowledge of the gospel they don't know they don't have access to the good news of who Jesus is and what Jesus has done and there's a reason why we do that.

It's because in the end that is what God is all about making his glory known among all the nations that's where the whole story is going to end in Revelation chapter 7 verse 9 and 10 with a multitude of no one could count from every nation and tribe and people and language gathered around his throne giving him glory.

This is the end of all things and if that's the end of all things the end toward which God is moving all things then shouldn't we be living for that end one of my constant prayers is the God would wake us up as the church to see the concept of unreached people as totally intolerable to us.

If there are 3 billion people among the nations right now who have little to no access to the gospel then we should be talking about this all the time in the church all the time in our Christian lives and our families we should be praying about this all the time that should not be just a topic that's relegated to Sunday here or a few people in the church to really be concerned about if we really believe there are 3 billion people in the world on a road that leads to an eternal hell and nobody's ever even told them how they can go to heaven.

We should be talking about this all the time and saying how can we pull our resources together how can we pray how can we do whatever God is calling us to do to get the gospel to them because that's the end for which God is working in the world and it's the ultimate purpose of all of our lives.

And so I hope that you see times where we pray for unreached people not as times to think about missions but as essential to what it means to be a follower of Jesus to follow Jesus is to live for his global cause to live to make his name known yes right where we live and among all the nations of the earth.

So God we pray that you would transform our understanding of Christianity to be about the end for which you have created us and all things the holiness greatness of your name being made known among all the nations God help us to live for that God help us to pray for that specifically.

God we pray today for the Maranile people of the Philippines on the island of Mindenau where there are 1.5 million people Muslims who have little to no knowledge of who you are Jesus and what you have done for their salvation God we pray that you would cause Christians in the Philippines to go to Mindenau and to make the gospel known there God we pray that you would raise up Christians from other places to go to the Maranile people to make the gospel known among them on this island.

In the Philippines and God we pray that you would use our lives however you want as we pray like this as we give our resources as we dream and we think about our future and our families and our marriages and our kids and our lives as students God we pray that you would spend us however you want for the spread of your glory among all the nations God help us to live for the end that you've created us and everything in the world for that the nations all of them might.

We know that you are the Lord oh God transform our understanding of Christianity and what it means to be your children around your purpose in the world help us to pray and give and live accordingly I pray for children students who are listening to this right now that they would have dreams of making the gospel known among people who have never heard it pray for parents who are listening right now that they would dream about that for their own lives for senior adults to dream about this in their retirement and for parents to dream about this for their own lives in their own futures and

single adults to maximize singleness for the spread of your glory among the nations for senior adults to dream about retirement in terms of how they can make your glory known among the nations during the last days before they see their Savior's face God for churches to dream about this what can we do together to make the gospel known among those who have never heard it and to plan accordingly and to live accordingly to use all the grace you've given us for the spread of your glory among the nations God to help us to live for your purpose.

In the world and not for any lesser purpose and God please help us to refuse to settle for a cultural Christianity that turns a blind eye and deaf ear to three billion people who have never heard the gospel God help us to live differently that they might be reached with the good news of your greatness your holiness your grace in the gospel when Jesus name we pray amen.