Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I have the joy and privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse.

Woohoo! What a joy and privilege it is. Okay, so today I'm going to read from two Psalms, Psalm 43 and Psalm 44, and as I've been doing, I will stop after each one to pray for you.

All right, Psalm 43 says this. There's no heading on it at all. It just

starts in. Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from

deceitful and wicked men, for you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go

mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill,

to your tents. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on

the harp, God, my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall still praise

him, my Savior, my Savior, and my God. Mind if I pray for you. Lord, we see the same phraseology in the

Psalm before in Psalm 42.

The psalmist was like, okay, why are you sad? Why are you in despair? Hope and God.

Help us to do that, Lord, even today. We did it yesterday. We need to do it today. Help us to preach to that.

Lord, we do pray for a chance just to be in your presence to experience you as our exceeding joy, to make melody

in our hearts to you, and to sing songs to you. Lord, that is, I know that that lifts me so

much. Lord, do deliver us from wicked and deceitful men and women and help us to speak the truth

and love in our context today.

Give us the bravery to do so. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, Psalm 44 says this.

For the chief musician by the sons of Cora, a contemplative psalm, we have heard with our ears, God.

Our fathers have told us what work you did in their days in the days of old.

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them, you afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

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