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

Psalm chapter 28 verses 1 and 2.

To you, O Lord, I call, My Rock, be not deaf to me, lest if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands

toward your most holy sanctuary. I love this posture of David in this Psalm. As I read it again,

just hear how desperate he is, like so desperate that he knows if God does

not answer him. If God does not provide help for him and mercy toward him, he is done. He's

hopeless without God. To you, O Lord, I call my rock, be not deaf to me. In other words,

please hear me, because if you are silent to me, I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Like, if you don't hear me, oh God, I am lost, I'm hopeless. hear the voice of my pleas for mercy.

Like, I'm pleading before you.

When I cry to you, I'm crying out to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

The whole picture is he's saying, I'm focused on you.

I need you.

If you don't come through, I'm done. And this is what

prayer is all about. Prayer is an expression of our dependence on God like this. So we're saying

to God, God, I need this. I need this. I can't do this without your help. I can't do this without your mercy.

I can't get through today without this or that. I will fall flat on my face without you.

And it's true. This is Jesus and John 15.5, right? Apart from me, you can do nothing.

Like, you will fall flat on your face and your faith and your desire to be the man or woman God

has called you to be or the husband or wife God's called you to be your parent or student, child,

whatever positions God's given you.

...