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

Can you imagine being a Jew at this moment and hearing the letters have been sent everywhere throughout all the King's provinces with instructions to destroy, to kill, to annihilate all Jews, no matter how old or young, men, women, children, all of them on one

day. I can't imagine like the all the thoughts and all the emotions that might go through my mind, and I might then be processing with my wife, with my kids, with everyone else in our community, every other Jewish, man, woman, child, like all processing.

It's been decreed by the King to kill all of us, to destroy all of us, the word is to annihilate all of us.

And all the questions that would lead to before God, and hopefully, ultimately, a crying out to God, God, please help us in desperation for God's provision.

I know that most everybody listening to this right now is not in that kind of situation. I do think about persecuted brothers and sisters around the world, I think about some of our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, for example, who are facing similar things to this right now, or North Korea, just places where it's been pronounced.

Destroy Christians, kill Christians. There are places like that in the world, I want to lead us to pray for our brothers and sisters there.

And at the same time, I want to pray for others who have gotten news recently that has just rocked you, whether it was news from a doctor's appointment, or news that someone has told you about themselves, who's in your family, or close friend, or in your family.

Or close friend, or in your church, it's just rocked you and brought you to a place of confusion, question, maybe fear, anxiety, and all of this, I just want to lead you and us to pray in desperation for God's provision.

Which is what we need to do in moments like this, not to turn away from God, but to turn to God. And so we pray, God, I pray for those who have gotten news from a doctor's appointment in their lives, news from others that affects them, and maybe even threatens their life, a cancer or a tumor, whatever it might be.

Oh God, God, I pray for your help for them. I pray for your provision over them for your provision of faith and strength and comfort and peace that surpasses all understanding that you would keep them from worry and anxiety.

You would help them to trust in you. I pray Isaiah 26 over them that you would keep them in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you because he, she trusts in you, got to help them to trust in you and God, we pray for your provision.

We pray for your help in every way they need. And God, we pray all these things over our brothers, sisters in Afghanistan and North Korea and other parts of the world. God, please help them.

Strengthen them, give them peace in the middle of threats against them. God, we pray for steadfast faith in them, for your steadfast love over them to be made known and even deeper ways during these days. God, we pray for that.

We're all who are walking through times like this. And God, even in this, we pray for unreached people in the world like the Northern Thai of Thailand, 8 million of them.

God who right now are walking through all kinds of things in this world and challenges in this world, but they're doing it without the gospel, without the good news of your love and Jesus,

God, we pray for the spread of the gospel to them, even as we praise you for the gospel in our lives. The gospel that reminds us that no matter what this world brings our way, no matter what diagnosis we receive, no matter what threat comes our way, no matter what imprisonment or death we face, that the live is Christ and the die is gained.

All glory be to your name, Lord Jesus, for the life you've given to us, for the joy and peace and strength you've made possible for us no matter what this world brings.

So God, I just pray that over every suffering sister brothers listening to this right now for suffering sisters and brothers who don't have any access to any kind of spiritual encouragement through a podcast like this.

Places like Afghanistan, North Korea, God, we pray for the preciousness of the gospel to be all the more real in their hearts during these days, even as we pray of God for the spread of this gospel in the world to the nations to people who are hurting all over the world, God, we pray for the good news of your love to reach them.

We pray all of this in Jesus name, according to Esther chapter 3 verse 13. Amen.