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

Luke chapter 8 verses 4 through 15 so I want to do something a little bit different

I want to read a longer passage of scripture and then just go right into praying according to it.

So it's the parable of the sower and Jesus explanation of it.

When a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him,

Jesus said in a parable,

a sower went out to sow his seed,

and as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled

underfoot and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away because it had no moisture. the

and as it grew up it withered away because it had no moisture and some fell among thorns and

the thorns grew up with it and choked it and some fell into good soil and

grew and yielded a hundredfold.

As he said these things, he called out,

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said,

to you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God.

But for others they are in parables,

so that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.

Now the parable is this.

The seed is the word of God.

The ones along the path of those who have heard,

then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so

...