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

Jeremiah, chapter 42, verses 20 and 21.

For you sent me to the Lord your God saying, pray for us to the Lord our God.

Whatever the Lord our God says, declare to us, and we will do it.

And I have this day declared it to you. But you have not

obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you. You read Jeremiah,

and you would think by this point, after Jeremiah has prophesied the fall of Jerusalem, the exile to come after that, that people would

listen to him now, that it's happened. What Jeremiah said would happen has happened. So you might

think in the wake of this destruction that people would be listening now to Jeremiah,

hey, we should have listened to him in the first place. Let's listen to him now. And initially,

that's exactly what they say. They say, hey, tell us, pray to God for us and bring us His word,

and we'll do it. But then the reality is, they don't do it.

Even though Jeremiah continues to speak the Word of God, they don't want to hear it and they don't want to obey it.

Instead, they still want to follow their own ways, devise their own plans.

So here's the key. What they want, instead of aligning their plans with God's plans,

they want God's blessing on their plans. You see the difference there? So they want God to bless their

plans what they think is best. instead of being willing to totally transform

their plans their ways according to God's word and you think about that tendency in your life

it's in my life do we really want to obey God whatever he wants us to do? Or do we really want to do

what we want to do and hope that God will bless what we want to do? That is a critical

question we must continually ask do we really want god's ways more than our own

ways in such a way that we are willing to totally rethink our plans to totally do that which

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