#552 – A Willingness to Obey (Genesis 12:4)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Let us pray that God will help us to value obedience to Him above all else.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Genesis chapter 12 verse 4 so Abram went as the Lord had told him, and Lott went with him, Abram was 75 years old when he departed from |
| 0:17.4 | Aaron. |
| 0:19.4 | I love the simplicity of this verse, but I wonder, like, what were all the emotions, thoughts going |
| 0:28.4 | through Abraham's head in this picture? Like in chapter 12 verse one God said to Abram go from your country |
| 0:37.1 | and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. So God |
| 0:42.1 | said leave behind everything you've ever known like your country, |
| 0:47.0 | your family and go to the land that I will show you. And not even here's the here's the land that I will show you. And not even, here's the land you're going to, |
| 0:55.0 | it's like, I'll show you. |
| 0:57.0 | And then verse four just says, |
| 1:00.0 | Abram went, |
| 1:01.0 | as the Lord had told him. |
| 1:03.0 | Ah, I want that kind of obedience in my life, don't you? |
| 1:08.0 | That just trust God completely? |
| 1:12.0 | That when God says do this, trust God |
| 1:13.0 | says do this, |
| 1:15.0 | don't sit back and say, |
| 1:17.0 | well what about that? |
| 1:18.0 | Or exactly how is this gonna look? |
| 1:21.0 | Where am I gonna end up? |
| 1:22.0 | What is it going to be like and how are you |
| 1:25.1 | going to provide family community and how are you going to do and just a |
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