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Pray the Word with David Platt

#1,003 – Your Help Comes from the Lord (Psalm 121:1–4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We go to the Lord on behalf of those with special needs and their families. May they trust that their help comes from the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps. Explore more content from Radical.

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Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

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Psalm chapter 121 verses 1 through 4.

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I lift up my eyes to the hills.

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From where does my help come?

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My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.

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He will not let your foot be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. What a picture.

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I obviously don't know what's going on in your life right now but at this moment i just

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want to encourage you with these words from psalm 121 lift up your eyes and realize remember that your

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help for whatever you are walking through right now your help comes from the lord who made

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heaven and earth and he will not let your foot be moved because the one who keeps you never goes to

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sleep he does not slumber or sleep. He is constant at every moment. When you lay your

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head on your pillow at night, he will still be sustaining you. He will still be helping you. When you are

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unconscious through the night, when you are laying there, not knowing anything that's going on

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around you, he will be helping you. He will be sustaining you. And when you wake up in the

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morning, his mercies will be new all over again. What an awesome Psalm, Psalm 121. As we are praying specifically for people and needs in the middle of this pandemic,

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and people are sending those in at radical.net slash prayer request. I encourage you to continue doing that. I want to read what Susan wrote. And we've prayed along these lines before,

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but I want to bring it back in light of what Psalm 121 is teaching us. Susan writes, please pray for

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children with special needs and their families, for whom sheltering in place is particularly challenging.

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Some children are affected greatly by changed routines and their missing therapies, special education,

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and respite, such as Jill's house, a ministry started by McLean Bible Church,

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to pray for supernatural patience, energy,

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peace, resources, protection, hope, strength for these children and their families.

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