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Pray the Word with David Platt

#1,013 – A Calmed and Quieted Soul (Psalm 131)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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πŸ—“οΈ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

"But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me."

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What's your plan as we go into the holidays for how you're going to share the

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gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

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resource called Gospel Threads to help you intentionally share Christ in the

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fabric of your normal conversations around the table or the living room or wherever you are,

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and we want to send you a free copy of gospel threads to your front door.

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Just go to radical.net slash share Jesus.

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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Psalm, chapter 131, three short, beautiful, awesome, comforting verses. Let me read them. Psalm 1 31 verse 1, oh Lord, my heart is not lifted up. My eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself

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with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with

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its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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O Israel, hope in the Lord, from this time forth

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and forevermore.

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You get the picture here. The psalmist is like a weaned child with its mother.

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Like just picture a child lying in the lap of its mom just resting calm and

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quiet. Don't picture like screaming crying child,

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like calm and quiet child peacefully resting

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in the arms of its mother.

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And that's what the Psalma says describes his heart before God. My heart is not lifted up, my eyes not raised too high.

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I am resting, trusting, hoping in you.

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Oh, I just want to pray that over you and me over every single person who's listening to this right now that we would see ourselves in this way.

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And as people are sending in different prayer requests to

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radical.net slash prayer request in this pandemic and we're praying for each other

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