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

We've just finished praying through Exodus in the Old Testament,

and since it is the week when we remember Jesus going to the cross,

dying, rising from the dead, Easter week, Holy Week,

obviously something we remember every day, something we remember every day.

We will remember every day for all of eternity.

We will remember, reflect on, rejoice in the salvation Jesus made possible for us

at the cross and in his resurrection.

But I thought it would be helpful for these Pray the Word episodes during this week,

starting on this Tuesday, just to walk the journey to the cross with Jesus in the Gospels

and to pray accordingly.

So on this Tuesday, I want to lead us to pray according to Mark

11, verses 27 and 28. So just to set the stage chronologically for how that week unfolded on Saturday

before that week, Jesus, as best as we can tell, arrived in Bethany that day where

he had dinner with Lazarus and Mary and Martha and Martha anointed his feet with oil.

And then on Sunday, as best as we can tell, he arrived into the city, Palm Sunday,

and the crowds shouted Hosanna, blessed as he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Then on Monday is the day when Jesus likely cleansed the temple.

When he overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves and he cried out as not my house intended to be a house of prayer

for all nations but you have made it a den of robbers and that then sets the stage for

Tuesday when mark chapter 11, verse 27 and

28 tells us, and they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief

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