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10 Ticks//The entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City

Each week 10 Ticks brings you a taste of everyday life in China. 10 Ticks is also a reminder to pray for the 90% of China's massive population that is not yet Christian.

Beyond this entrance lies the compound that China’s ancient royal family called home: the Forbidden City.

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10 Ticks//Inside Beijing's Forbidden City

Each week 10 Ticks brings you a taste of everyday life in China. 10 Ticks is also a reminder to pray for the 90% of China's massive population that is not yet Christian.

China’s ancient royal family called the Forbidden City home. Many members of the family never — or at least infrequently — were allowed to leave this compound. It was a gilded cage, but a cage nonetheless.

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DEVOTION//Pray for the government

God’s people pray for their government’s leaders. Those leaders are there as God’s representatives. To respect them is to respect our heavenly Father. So we ask the Lord of lords to direct the government of the United States and China.

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