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Genesis 1:3
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O Lord, You began Your six day work of creation by speaking a word of power.
You said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
O Lord, send Your Holy Spirit upon us that Your word which we have read
today might be a powerful word of enlightenment in our hearts.
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Genesis 1:14
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O Lord, on the fourth day of creation, You put lights in the firmament of
the heavens for signs and seasons. O Lord, may the reading of Your word this
morning be the shining of Your light upon us amidst the darkness of this
world
as a sign that this is the season of Your grace and the day of our salvation.
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Genesis 19:14
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O Lord, may we not be like Lot's sons-in-law who heard Your warning about
the destruction of Sodom and treated it as a joke. May we take Your word
seriously, O Lord, and heed it for what it is, the word of the true and living
God.
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Exodus 4:10-12
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O Lord, I testify with Moses that I am not eloquent but rather am slow of
speech and slow of tongue. But, O Lord, You who have called me to preach are
also the one who has made man's mouth.
You, O Lord, make the mute, the deaf, the seeing and the blind. As the
Sovereign Distributor of all gifts and handicaps, be with my mouth today,
O Lord, and teach me by Your word and Spirit what I shall say.
Be with our ears, O Lord,
that we may truly hear with understanding all that which is truly consistent
with Your word of revelation.
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Exodus 13:21-22
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Guide us, O Lord, as we make our pilgrimage through the wilderness of this
life. O Lord, may Your Spirit open up to us the teaching of Your word so
that Your teaching will go before us by day as a pillar of cloud to lead the
way,
and by night as a pillar of fire to give us light. Do not, O Lord, take away
from us, Your people, this pillar of cloud by day or this pillar of fire
by night.
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Deuteronomy 32:1-2
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You have spoken, O Lord, and we have heard the words of Your mouth as
recorded for us in this passage. Now, O Lord, bless the sermon which seeks to
explain and apply Your words.
To the extent that this sermon is true to Your words, O Lord, let my teaching
drop upon Your people assembled here as the rain and distill upon them
as the dew, as raindrops on the tender plant and as showers upon the grass.
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1 Samuel 3:10
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We thank You for the reading of Your word, O Lord. Now give us ears to hear
that we may say with the boy prophet Samuel, "Speak, for Your servants hear."
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Psalm 12:6
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for Your words are pure
words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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Psalm 25:4-5
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We thank You for the reading of Your word, O Lord. Show us Your ways, O Lord;
teach us Your paths. Lead us in Your truth and teach us; for You are the
God of our salvation; on You we wait all the day.
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Psalm 119:18
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your Word. Now open our eyes that we
may see wondrous things from Your Word.
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Psalm 119:105,130
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for the entrance of Your
words gives light; for the entrance of your words gives understanding to
the simple.
Open up Your word to us today, O Lord, through the illuminating work of Your
Holy Spirit, that Your inspired, infallible word, Your revealed will, may
become for us a lamp for our feet and a light to our path.
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Psalm 119:144
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O Lord, the righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; give us
understanding, and we shall live.
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Psalm 119:49-50-76,81
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your inspired word, our only
Infallible rule of faith and practice. Remember Your word to Your servants,
upon which You have caused us to hope. This is our comfort in our afflictions,
for Your word has given us life. Let, we pray, Your merciful kindness be for
our comfort, according to Your word to Your servants. Our souls faint for
Your salvation, but we hope in Your word.
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Proverbs 1:7
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We thank You for the reading of Your word, O Lord. May we heed Your word and
give it the attention it deserves. For our fearful respect for You, O Lord,
is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Proverbs 1:30-31,33
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. May we not be as those
who will have none of Your counsel and who despise Your every rebuke. For
they shall eat the fruit of their own way and be filled to the full with
their own fancies.
But whoever listens to You, O Lord, will dwell safely, and will be secure
without fear of evil.
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Proverbs 2:,1,5
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. We receive Your words,
O Lord, and treasure Your commands in our hearts, that we might understand
the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
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Proverbs 3:1-2
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. May we nor forget Your
law; may our hearts keep Your commands. For they will add to us length of
days and long life and peace.
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Proverbs 3:13-18
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for Your word reveals to
us Your wisdom. For Your revealed wisdom, O Lord, is more profitable than
silver and yields better returns than fine gold. She is more precious than
rubies,
and all things we may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in
her right hand, and in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways
of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
We thank You, O Lord, for the reading of Your word.
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Proverbs 4:20-22
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Enable us, O Lord, to give
attention to Your words and to incline our ears to Your sayings. May they
not depart from our eyes; may we keep them in the midst of our heart.
For Your words are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
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Proverbs 8:10-11
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O Lord, we ask not for silver but for Your instruction. We ask not for choice
gold but for the knowledge found in Your inspired word. For Your wisdom,
O Lord, is better than rubies. All else that we might desire,
O Lord, cannot be compared with the wisdom, knowledge and instruction which
You give to us through Your inspired word and outpoured Spirit. Bless
Your word today, O Lord, to our spiritual enrichment.
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Proverbs 30:5
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O Lord, bless to us the reading of Your word, for Your every word is pure,
and You are a shield to those who put their trust in You.
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Isaiah 1:3
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O Lord, the ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib. O Lord,
enable us to know You, our Creator and our Redeemer. Enable us to hear Your
word and to understand it that we may serve You with the service You truly
desire.
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Isaiah 29:10-12
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O Lord, apart from the illuminating work of Your Spirit among us, Your word
is like a book sealed shut in the hands of a literate man who can read the
book but cannot open it, or like an open book in the hands of the illiterate
man
who can open the book but cannot read it. Open our eyes, O Lord, and renew
our will, that we may know and obey Your revealed will as contained in this
passage.
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Isaiah 29:18
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We thank You, O Lord, for the reading of Your Word. Though we are deaf, O
Lord, may we today hear the words of Your book not only with our ears but in
the depths of our hearts.
Though we are blind, O Lord, may we today see out of obscurity and out of
darkness and behold the glory of Your revelevation to us in the Bible.
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Jeremiah 15:16
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O Lord, we have found Your words in the pages of Scripture, and we now
prepare to feast on them. May Your word be to us, O Lord, the joy and rejoicing
our of hearts, for we are called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
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Jeremiah 23:29
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O Lord, Your Word is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces. Use Your Word today, O Lord, as a hammer to break our heart of stone
and as a fire to burn away our sinful dross.
Through Your Word and Spirit, create in us a clean heart, O God, and
prepare us for Your service.
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Jonah 1:17
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Father, we thank you for the reading of your most holy Word. And now, Father,
we ask that even as You sent the great fish to deliver Jonah from the realm
of death, that You will today send Your illuminating Spirit of truth
to deliver us from our spiritual blindness so that we may understand Your
Word and apply it to our lives.
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Matthew 4:4
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for we do not live by
bread alone but by every word which proceeds from Your mouth.
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Matthew 13:23
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for it is the sowing of
Your seed in our hearts. By the regenerating work of Your Holy Spirit, may
our hearts be good ground, that we may hear Your word and understand it,
that we may indeed bear fruit and produce: some of us one hundredfold, some
of us sixty, some of us thirty.
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Matthew 13:44; Psalm 119:162
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O Lord, we rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure. Now, O
Lord, give us eyes to see that Jesus is our great treasure, like unto treasure
hidden in a field which was so valuable that when a man found it, he went
and,
for his joy over that hidden treasure, sold all that he had and bought that
field where it was hidden. Help us to understand the riches that are ours
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew 15:9
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your infallible word of truth. For
when we teach as doctrines the mere commandments of men, we worship You in
vain. May we today learn the doctrine that is found in Your word,
and may our worship not be in vain.
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Mark 4:8
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O Lord, we thank You for sowing the seed of Your word in our hearts. Now, O
Lord, through the sanctifying power of Your Holy Spirit, transform our
hearts into good ground so that the seed will yield a crop that springs up,
increases and produces: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.
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Mark 4:11-12
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O Lord, may we not be as those outside Your kingdom who see but do not
perceive, and hear but do not understand. May we not be as those who do not
turn from the darkness of error to the light of Your truth that their sins
might be
forgiven them. Through Your word and Spirit, may it be given to us to know
the mystery of Your kingdom.
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Mark 8:23-25
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word in all its clarity. Yet
apart from Your illuminating grace, we are blind to its meaning. Through
the ministry of Your outpoured Spirit, put Your healing hands upon us, that we
may see.
Yes, put Your hands upon us a second time that we may see clearly.
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Mark 8:23-25
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word in all its clarity. Yet
apart from Your illuminating grace, we are blind to its meaning. Through
the ministry of Your outpoured Spirit, put Your healing hands upon us, that we
may see.
Yes, put Your hands upon us a second time that we may see clearly.
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Luke 24:45
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O Lord, in the evening of that very Sunday upon which You rose from the
dead, You appeared to Your disciples who had assembled in Jerusalem, and You
opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
Even so, O Lord, be with us who have assembled here on this Lord's Day.
Through the mystical work of Your outpoured Spirit, be with us and open our
understanding that we too might comprehend the Scriptures.
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Luke 24:45
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Now open our understanding
that we might comprehend what we have read.
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John 8:12
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We thank You, O Lord, for sending Christ into the world as the light of the
world. Work now in our hearts, O Lord, through Your Holy Spirit together
with Your Word and Sacrament that we may follow Christ and thus not walk in
darkness but instead have the light of life.
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Acts 16:14
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O Lord, we have heard the words of our Savior as recorded in the apostolic
tradition preserved for us in the pages of the New Testament.
Now open our hearts that we may heed the things spoken by our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.
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Acts 26:18
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your inspired word. Now, through
Your word and Spirit, open our eyes in order to turn us from darkness to light
and from the power of Satan to You, the Lord our God,
that we may receive forgiveness of our sins and an inheritance among those
who are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. May we not be as the
natural man who does not receive these truths given to us by the inspiration
of Your Spirit, for these truths are foolishness to him.
May we not be as the natural man who cannot know these truths with true
discernment, because these truths are spiritually discerned.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. May we not be as the
natural man who does not receive these truths given to us by the inspiration
of Your Spirit, for these truths are foolishness to him.
May we not be as the natural man who cannot know these truths with true
discernment, because these truths are spiritually discerned.
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2 Corinthians 3:14-16
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O Lord, we thank you for the reading of Your word. Now, O Lord, through Your
Holy Spirit, take away the veil that lies on our heart and remove the
blindness of our minds, that we may see the Christ of Scripture with the eyes
of faith.
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2 Corinthians 4:6
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O Lord, even as You commanded light to shine out of darkness when You created
the world, we pray that You will today, through the message of Your word,
shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of Your glory
in the face of Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 10:4-6; Ephesians 6:17
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, which is the sword of Your
Spirit. Use Your word today, O Lord, to bring our every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ. Conquer us, O Lord, through Your Word
and Spirit.
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Ephesians 1:17-18
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Now give us the spirit of
wisdom and revelation and enable us to know You clearly, having the eyes
of our understanding enlightened,
that we may know what is the hope which we have in Your calling us to Christ
and that we may know what are the riches of the glory of the inheritance
which You have given to us in Christ.
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Epensians 3:8-11
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word in which You proclaim the
unsearchable riches of Christ and make known mysteries of salvation which
reveal Your manifold wisdom to the principalities and powers in the heavenly
places.
Open up Your word to us, O Lord, that we might possess its riches and know
its mysteries.
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1 Thessalonians 2:13
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O God, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Enable us now to receive
and welcome Your word not as the word of men but as it is in truth,
the word of God, which effectively works in those who believe.
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2 Timothy 3:7,15
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O Lord, may we not be as those who are ever learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth. Instead enable us to know the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make us wise for salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
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2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Father, we thank You for the reading of Your Word, which You have given to
us through the miracle of inspiration. We ask that through the blessing of
Christ and the working of Your Holy Spirit
that Your Word might be profitable to us for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that we might be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Hebrews 4:12
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O Lord, Your word is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Now, O Lord, conquer our hearts with Your word, and cut away as with a
surgeon's knife any idolatrous attitudes and rebellious thoughts,
that we may worship You today with a pure and loyal heart.
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Hebrews 5:11-14
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Give us ears to hear that
we may not be dull of hearing. May we drink the milk of Your word that
we may as babes learn the first principles of Your oracles.
May we also partake of the solid food of Your word that we may as mature
believers become skilled in the word of righteousness and learn to discern
good and evil by applying Your word to our lives.
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1 Peter 2:2-3
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Heavenly Father, we thank You for the reading of Your Word. We have tasted
that You are gracious, and we desire, as newborn babes, the pure milk of
Your word, that we may grow thereby.
By Your inspired Word and outpoured Spirit, nourish us, O Lord. Strengthen
our faith and cause us to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ;
in whose name we pray. Amen.
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