Hey everyone, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray through the Bible verse by

verse, humbled and grateful to have the opportunity to be able to do this every single day.

Welcome to all of you who are new. We use the World English Bible because it's a free

translation to use. I don't have to get permission. And basically the format of this is I read

scripture and then I pray for you according to that scripture.

Felt prompted today to pray for nephews and nieces.

And so Lord Jesus, I lift up my own nephews and nieces.

And I pray for their flourishing.

I pray that they would come to know you at an early age.

I pray that they would have relationships that honor you. I pray that they would

meet you and know you and encounter you, that you would send Christ followers into their lives that

teach them about you. I pray that you'd even speak to them in their dreams in the middle of the night.

I pray you would woo them to yourself. Lord, I pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

All right, today I'm reading Psalm 48 in the World English Bible, as I just said, and this is

what it says.

It says, A song, a Psalm by the Sons of Cora.

Great is Yahweh and greatly to be praised in the city of our God and his holy

mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion on the north sides,

the city of the great king. God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. For behold, the kings assembled themselves. They

passed by together. They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

Trembling took hold of them there. Pain as of a woman in travail. With the east wind,

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