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

We have spent the last 31 days on this podcast in each episode, praying,

in anticipation of election in the United States and the plan has been to jump

back into praying through the prophets in the Old Testament in a way that will lead us all the way to

Christmas and it just so happens that the reading today that we're going to pray

according to is from from hossiah chapter 8.

In verse 14 says,

Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

so I will send a fire upon his cities

and it shall devour her strongholds.

That's the last verse in an entire chapter that basically exposes how God's people in the days of

Isaiah had put their trust in their palaces that they were

building, their cities that they were

fortifying,

other nations that they were looking to to help them.

They had entered into alliances with foreign nations. And of this they had turned aside from God in their

politics with their business, armies, in the construction of cities, in it all they had neglected

God as their king.

As the one who alone can provide the security they need.

As the one who alone can provide the strength they need as the one who alone can provide the hope they

need so on this day after those of us who are followers of Jesus in the United States have stewarded our votes

in an election, let's pause and say to God, you alone, oh God, have what we need.

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