Hello everyone, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse with joy and intention and hope and all the things.

Before I start today, I'm going to be reading Psalm 100 and 101 in the World English Bible, but I feel compelled to pray for someone who has rheumatoid arthritis.

I don't know who you are.

I've heard that that's very painful. I know my

grandmother had some really debilitating arthritis, so let me pray. Jesus, I pray for my friend

battling this condition, and I pray for relief. I pray for wisdom in the medical sphere. I pray that

your Holy Spirit would just move throughout their body and bring

healing. And Lord, if you choose not to heal, I pray that you would give them resilience and an

ability to take the next right step and to find joy in the middle of the pain. Lord, that's really

hard to do. I pray that they would have the function and the ability to surrender that pain to you

every moment of every day.

And I pray your presence would be joyful and close.

In Jesus' name, I pray.

Amen.

All right, Psalm 100 is this.

I can't believe we've been reading through 100 Psalms already together.

It's lovely.

This is a Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to joy to Yahweh all you lands. Serve Yahweh with gladness.

Come before his presence with singing. Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us.

And we are his.

We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.

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