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Pray the Word with David Platt

#237 – Maintaining Our Awe of God (Romans 11:33)

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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🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We must avoid falling prey to losing sight of the glory of God and His grace that we experience right relationship with Him.Explore more content from Radical.

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

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Romans chapter 11, verse 33.

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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God.

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How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways.

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This verse just causes us to look to God today in awe.

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Like when we hear a verse from His Word and we pray for a couple of minutes,

0:37.7

I think if we're not careful, we can get in a routine

0:39.8

where we lose sight of whose word we're listening to

0:44.1

and who we're talking to, who we're praying to.

0:49.7

And I don't want to ever in my life just grow routine in prayer or Bible reading or Bible hearing.

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There is an awe that should mark every prayer.

1:08.4

Every time we open the word, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of

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God.

1:15.9

Paul puts an exclamation point on that and the same thing at the end of the next sentence.

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How unsearchable are his judgments, how inscrutable his ways.

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He's so beyond our understanding.

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We can't even search out all the wonders of his ways, his judgments,

1:32.0

his riches, his wisdom, his knowledge. It's unending. So I just want to encourage you

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in your prayer time, even as we pray in a minute, in your time reading God's Word, in your prayer time even as we pray in a minute in your time reading god's word and you're

1:48.0

gathering together with the church on sundays not to lose a sense of awe before god to be overwhelmed by the wonder, the depth of the greatness of God. Let's pray.

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We're praying to this, God. God, we bow our heads, our hearts before you, and even on our knees right now, just saying you are greater than we can fathom.

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God, forgive me for oftentimes being so quick to speak and not stopping and pausing and

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