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

God's people can presume that God is going to work for them and fight for them when the

reality is, if God's people are doing evil, and God will not be working for them, that

a picture here in Judges 3, verse 12, is God working against His people, strengthening

a foreign king against His people because His people were doing evil, and this is a picture

we see all throughout the Old Testament when you think about God's judgment ultimately

in the exile.

God scattered His people from the Promised Land because they had done evil, because

they had worshipped all kinds of other gods, just indulged in all sorts of idolatry and

immorality.

And so, when we pray in our lives, we need to pray, yes, based on God's promise of His

love for us, His promise to be with us, to help us, but we can never disconnect, claiming

and resting in God's promises toward us from obeying God's commands to us, that if

we want to experience the fullness of God's blessing in our lives, and all that Jesus

has bought for us at the cross, we by God's grace need to walk and obedience to Him.

We need to flee idolatry and immorality to flee evil.

And so, I just want to lead us to pray today, God, help each one of us.

We pray today, to see, to have open eyes, to see any ways in which we are doing evil or

not honoring you or not glorifying you, God, help us to see our sin and to confess it

and to run from it, to turn from it and to live in obedience to you and to experience

your blessing that comes with obedience.

God, help us not to presume upon you that just because we know you, you will support

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