#1,275 - God's Heart for Women Who are Hurting (Genesis 34:1–2)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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God cares deeply about those who are hurting and desires for them to experience healing through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.7	Genesis chapter 34 versus 1 and 2.
0:10.2	Now Dinah the daughter of Leah whom she had born to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.
0:18.5	And when Sheckham, the son of Hamor, the hivite, the prince of the land saw her. He seized her and lay with her and
0:26.9	humiliated her. These are a couple of very serious sobering verses in Genesis, showing the sinfulness and evil of man.
0:49.3	In this picture, Dina, Jacob's daughter is abused, hurt. I know there's different ages of people who listen to this podcast so we won't go into more
1:07.1	details but but humiliated and shamed and hurt. and chapter and thinking about how we can pray according to it, I was just immediately struck in these first couple of verses by the desire to pray specifically for women who have been hurt and abused by men doing evil things.
1:41.6	And I know there are many women who have experienced that and in different ways and I just want to lead us to pray together for them for you if that is you.
2:01.6	So God we hate sin and evil in this world. We hate it. I say that as we read these verses, we pray that in each one of our lives
2:18.4	you would help us to hate sin and evil more, Not to flirt with sin, not to justify sin, to run from sin, to run from any and every temptation to sin.
2:34.2	God, we pray for that in our lives.
2:35.8	We pray that we would never be casual with sin.
2:38.5	Don't let us be casual with sin at all today.
2:42.4	Especially as we consider the hurt that Dyna experienced in Genesis 34
2:51.9	verses 1 through 2 and the earth that many women many whom are sisters in Christ have experienced
2:59.6	God we pray for your mercy, for your grace, for your healing in every way.
3:09.2	In that process of healing, God we pray for progress in that process for the healing
3:20.8	balm of your word and your spirit and your love and your grace to
3:27.4	nurture those wounds. God we pray physically, spiritually, emotionally, relationally, for healing for your help.
3:40.6	God we pray that we as your church would be a picture of your help, that we would not be a further
3:48.7	picture in any way of isolation or shame. God that you would help us as your church to be a
3:57.0	picture of your healing. God even as I pray that I think about how many stories of this happening in relationship to your
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