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Hosea, chapter 9, verse 12, woe to them when I depart from them. Wow, what a potent,

brief, short indictment, caution warning woe to them when I depart from them. This is the worst

judgment of all for God to leave us to ourselves, for God to depart from us to take off his hand of

grace and mercy and help and every good thing that he provides for God to depart from us. Yes,

Hosea 9, 12 is right, woe to anyone from whom God departs. And doesn't that just lead us then to say

to God today? Well, let's just pray, God, we need you, we need your mercy, we need your grace,

we need your help, we need all the good things that come from your hand, that we can get nowhere

else. We shudder to think where we would be apart from those good things, but not just those

things God apart from you woe to us if you depart from us. We confess today our need for you all day

long. In tomorrow and the next day, we have no hope without you. We have no hope without all that

comes from you, your wisdom, your strength, your peace, your comfort, your help in every way we

need it. We are a very dependent people, totally dependent on you. So God, remove pride from us,

all pride we want to die to ourselves today, to any trust in ourselves or hope in ourselves

or in anything else in this world. God, all of our hope is in you. Please be with us as you have

promised. Please guide us, lead us, direct us, empower us, enable us. God, do in us all the things

that only you can do, all the things that we need you to do. God, we pray this for the peoples

of the world, God, for the Kassab people of Pakistan, over a million of them who don't know you,

who don't know your presence with them, your blessing on them through Jesus. God, we pray for the

spread of the gospel to the Kassab people of Pakistan. Pray for this people group and pray for

Muhammad who is from Pakistan, who I had the opportunity to share the gospel with the other night.

God, pray for his salvation. We pray for the salvation of millions of people in Pakistan,

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