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Pray the Word with David Platt

#165 – Transform Our Thoughts (Isaiah 55:8–9)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

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🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We are prone to think differently than God thinks, so we need to ask Him to reorient our ways to His will.

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

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Isaiah chapter 55 verses 8 and 9

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for my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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Neither are your ways, my ways, to clear as the Lord.

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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,

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and my thoughts than your thoughts. This is one of those

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good reminders in the book of Isaiah that God is so different from us.

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And if we're not careful, we are prone to miss this on a daily basis.

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So when we hear God say,

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my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways.

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We need to be reminded that there's a way that we are

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prone to think that is so different from the way God is prone to think.

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There's a way we're prone to live that is so different from the way God wants us to live.

0:55.4

So we need to ask him every day to reorient our thoughts according to his thoughts.

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To transform our ways according to his ways according to his will because if

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we're not careful we can just kind of get caught up in every day just living

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like the world thinks we should live and doing what everybody else in the world

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is doing when God has called us to think differently, to have a totally different perspective

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on our lives than we are prone to have to live

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differently to live in a radically different way than we would live if we were

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focused on this world. But the challenge is if we're

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not careful we can just get caught up in going through the daily motion according

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