#43 – Just the Right Word (Proverbs 15:23)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 22 September 2017

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Look for opportunities to bring joy to others through true and timely words.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Proverbs chapter 15 verse 23 to make an apt answer is a joy to a man and a word in season how good it is exclamation point how good it is
0:20.1	This this picture this proverb when we're talking to somebody else and maybe somebody has a question or they're they're wrestling through a decision to make an apt answer brings joy to that person or to give a word in season a timely word to
0:36.9	encourage somebody up to build somebody up to give counsel to somebody in a way that's helpful, how good that is.
0:45.7	And we think about how many times in our lives, when somebody has said just the right
0:50.9	words at a particular time, the right words at a particular time
0:53.4	the right words to encourage us when we needed encouragement
0:56.4	when we were wrestling through a decision the the right council that was needed at that moment
1:01.7	an apt answer it brought joy to us. The words in season like that are so good to our souls. And so, think about the people that you'll be around today or tomorrow and the opportunities you have to give apt answers to give words in season.
1:23.0	I read this and I'm just driven to pray that God would help me give wise counsel to others,
1:30.5	apt answers, good encouraging words in season, to be on the lookout for ways that we can
1:37.7	speak to others in this kind of fashion in a way that brings joy to them in a way that just causes them to walk away saying that was really good to hear
1:49.7	So let's look for those opportunities and pray, oh God, we want to give apt answers in ways that bring joy to men and women around us.
1:59.5	We want to give words in season. Help us to be sensitive to the opportunities we have today, tomorrow,
2:08.4	to encourage the people around us, just to build them up, to help them in situations they may be facing
2:18.1	where they've got decisions to make, to help them with wise counsel. God help us to give wise counsel.
2:25.1	Counsel beyond our means, counsel that comes from your word and your spirit, help us
2:32.0	to give that kind of counsel, help us to give that kind of counsel help us to speak words in season today
2:37.7	use our words to bring goodness and joy to the people around us today we pray.
2:45.3	Help us to make the most of every conversation we have along these lines.
2:51.8	In Jesus' name, Amen.

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