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

Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 7, says these I will bring to my holy mountain

and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar.

For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

This is God through Isaiah talking specifically about the temple.

And God calling the temple where his glory dwells, a house of prayer.

Now the implications of this, as we think about our lives, centuries after God said this

through Isaiah are huge. So there are pictures we see in the New Testament of both our bodies as a

temple of the Holy Spirit and the church is described as a temple. When you hear church, don't just think

building like physical building of a

temple in the Old Testament. Think the people of God, like a local church as the temple, as the place

where his glory dwells, that people who gather together. And so just staying there for a moment,

this is something that should mark us as the church.

When we gather together for worship to behold and declare the glory of God,

Sunday after Sunday after Sunday,

when once a week we set aside this time together,

there is a real sense in which that time should be saturated with prayer.

Like we're a people of prayer.

When we get together, we pray.

And so I think about the church I'm a part of,

and I want us to be a house of prayer.

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