#442 – Feed on God's Word (Jeremiah 15:16)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Has God's Word become a joy to you and is it the delight of your heart? Praise God that He has called us by name and may we grow in our dependence on Him through delighting in His Word.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16.
0:09.1	Your words were found and I ate them.
0:13.0	And your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name,
0:20.7	O Lord God, of hosts.
0:24.2	Are those not some amazing phrases to describe a reaction to God's word when we find them, we
0:31.7	open up the Bible, so your words are found and I ate them.
0:35.7	Like we take them in like picture sitting down to a feast of good food and just diving into eating it your words became to me a joy
0:49.0	like enjoying so picture not just any meal, picture a great meal.
0:56.2	You just sit down and you enjoy eating like every bite is so good.
1:02.2	Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart. My heart loved
1:07.6	them. My heart was leaping with joy over your words. Why? Because I'm called by your name, oh Lord God of hosts, what a great
1:17.2	picture. His word toward us, it's not disconnected from love for us, care for us. The whole picture here is God. So picture
1:27.0	it, picture when you open your Bible, this is the word of a God who is called your name. He loves you. He cares for you. He knows you. He sent his son to die for you.
1:40.0	Keep in mind, this is the Lord the God of hosts the God of angel armies the God who rules and reigns
1:47.0	sovereignly over everything in the world this God knows you loves you is your name, and has spoken to you, and has given you words
1:56.0	that are intended to satisfy, delight your heart, to become your joy such that you want to just eat them, that you want to digest them.
2:05.0	This is Bible reading. That's what Bible reading is.
2:10.0	Bible reading, memorizing, studying, meditating, it's all about eating God's word, letting
2:16.8	them to become to you a joy, the delight of your heart because the God who spoke them has called your name. He's the Lord God of hosts
2:26.1	and he loves you and he is speaking to you through his word. Oh God we praise you for his word.
2:32.7	Oh God, we praise you for your word.
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