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Pray the Word with David Platt

#357 – Day and Night (Psalm 1:1–2)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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

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πŸ—“οΈ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Let us be a people who meditate on God's Word day and night that we may revel in the inexhaustible truths of the glory of God.

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

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Psalm chapter 1 verses 1 and 2

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Blessed is the man who walks not in the Council of the Wicked, nor stands in the way of

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sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night.

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What an incredible opening to a book full of 150 chapters, songs, prayers, laments that are all worthy of meditation which it's not just Psalms the whole Bible

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is worthy of a meditation and that's that's the key word here.

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This is the man or woman who is blessed, the one who meditates on the law of the

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Lord on the word of God. It's interesting when you look through

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scripture even more than you hear commands like to read the word or to study

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the word you actually hear commands to meditate on the word

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which means don't just hear it don't just understand it but internalize it like

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let it soak in to your mind and to your heart.

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Let it transform you.

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Give it time to do that, which is why this Psalm says,

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meditate on it day and night, like all day, all night.

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So the idea is, Psalm 1 and 2, for example, you hear that at the beginning of your day and

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then you just think about it all day long and a

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Deuteronomy six kind of way maybe even you write it down and you put it up at different places so you're

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constantly thinking about it so you're constantly focused on it

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all the way until that night and you lay down your head on your pillow at night and

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you're thinking, ah, blessed is the man or woman who delights in the law of the Lord.

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And you just meditate on that, think about it, internalize it all day long.

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