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Genesis chapter 9, verse 7,

and you be fruitful and multiply.

Increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.

I point this verse out in particular in light of the connection with Genesis 1-28,

when God said, after creating Adam and Eve, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

Now in Genesis chapter 9, like right after the flood and things are kind of starting

over with Noah and his family, God says the exact same thing. You be fruitful and multiply,

increase greatly on the earth, multiply in it. Again, God wants his grace, his goodness, in his image bearers to fill the earth.

He wants human life to flourish on the earth, multiplying, and his blessing in the middle

of all of that. This is just the goodness of God that he

desires to fill the earth with his goodness, with his blessing, with his grace. And in Genesis 1,

we thought together on that day when we were looking at that passage, we prayed together

about how that is happening even today, how His grace and blessing flows throughout the

earth as we make disciples as we multiply the life of Christ, this renewed life in Jesus

reconciled to God. We want to multiply across the earth.

So I try on most days to pray for an unreached people group. And today, the people group

that's highlighted is the Fulacunda people in Senegal. The Fulacunda people in

Senegal are a Muslim people group, that 1.8 million of them in Senegal. They are classified

as unreached by the gospel. They are only a few, like a handful

of known followers of Jesus among the Fulacunda tribe. And there's a lot of barriers to the gospel.

It's hard to get the gospel to the Fulikunda in Senegal because of not just their Muslim beliefs and even strongly held Muslim beliefs, but some of the remote nature of this people group, some of the unique challenges with those who have tried to bring

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