#513 – Sound the Trumpet (Numbers 10:10)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 4 January 2019
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May we be a people who are constantly crying out to God.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Numbers chapter 10 verse 10 on the day of your gladness also and at your appointed feast and at the beginning of your months you shall blow |
| 0:15.1 | the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace |
| 0:19.2 | offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God. |
| 0:26.0 | I am the Lord your God. |
| 0:29.0 | What a really interesting phrase there at the end. So this picture of blowing the trumpets |
| 0:36.5 | was more than just like getting the people's attention. It was a picture of getting God's attention. It was like a prayer. It was a plea for God to remember his people and their needs like they shall be a reminder of you before your God. Now obviously |
| 0:57.2 | God knows us. God knows everything about us. God is always watching over us. |
| 1:04.0 | It's not like he forgets about us, like, |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, David, or, oh, whoever, like, I forgot about you, |
| 1:11.0 | like, that's obviously not the case. We know that. At the same time, you think about |
| 1:16.8 | prayer. Prayer's like blowing the trumpet before God, saying, God, I need you, please help me, please give your attention to me, give your attention to this person, to this or that need. |
| 1:31.0 | God, we are blowing the trumpets and when we pray we're asking God, lead us, guide us, direct us, help us in this way or that way. |
| 1:42.0 | And, oh, that's a good picture of what we do constantly in the morning, at night, all throughout the day, |
| 1:52.0 | when we pray even now so so pray with this in mind |
| 1:57.5 | God I am we are sounding the trumpet right now. |
| 2:02.8 | We need your help. |
| 2:05.8 | I'd make a trumpet sound if it wouldn't sound like really crazy right now, but I just |
| 2:12.2 | got I need your help in my life today. I need your help in my life, |
| 2:16.7 | and my marriage, and my family, my kids need your help, my wife needs your help, the church |
| 2:22.1 | that I'm a part of need your help. Lord, I need your help my work. I've got so many things I'm wrestling with right now and God I need your help and I'm praying right now for others who need your help too. |
| 2:32.0 | Lord, we're sounding the trumpet. I'm sounding the trumpet for them. now for others who need your help too. |
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