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 we will remember every day for all the

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 chapter 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.

That 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, is 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 priests

and the scribes and the elders came to him and they said to him, by what authority are you doing

these things? Or who gave you this authority to do them? That was the critical question

that these religious leaders were wanting to know. Who gave Jesus authority to overturn

the tables and the temple and to cry out, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

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