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

As this Pray the Word episode begins, I want to give a little heads up on kind of a different direction we're going to take over the next month in

Pray the Word episodes so we are 31 days away from presidential election in the

United States.

And I know not everybody who listens to this podcast

is from the United States, but I know most listeners are

and amidst the tense and I would say toxic political climate around us I'm

zealous to in my own life and the lives of those God's entrusted me to

shepherd in the church and even through this avenue to encourage us with God's word to lead us to meditate on

the word of God during these days and to pray specifically according to God's word in different ways amidst a presidential

election. So we have developed a radical just a 31 day prayer guide that goes along with a book that I've written

just a little short book called Before You Vote, seven questions every Christian should ask just trying to help people think

through how to glorify God and an election and how to do this with unity together in the

church around Jesus and his word. So you can find out more

information about that book as well as the prayer guide at radical.net. But what we're going to do in these pray the word

episodes for these 31 days is we're just going to take different verses from

God's word and we're going to pray according to a different verse each day in ways that I hope

will help us during these days fix our minds and our hearts on God as the king who rules over our

nation and all nations and I hope this will be applicable helpful even for those of you who are followers of Jesus in other countries.

Even as we ask you to pray for us in the United States, I hope that many of these things will apply to you in your country.

So we're going to start today with Psalm chapter 22 verses 27 and 28.

This is the word of God.

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