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Pray the Word with David Platt

#557 – Help Us to Trust in You (Proverbs 3:5–6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

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🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall make straight your paths.

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

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Proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 and 6

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trust in the Lord with all your heart

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and do not lean on your own understanding.

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In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths.

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These are, I think, two of the most precious verses in my life and my story of walking with God.

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I come back to these verses over and over and over again.

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I don't think I'm alone in that many people do. This is such a powerful exportation and I just want to

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pray directly through it not only for my own life but for your life.

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Let's just pray these words together.

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God help us

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to trust in you with all our hearts, with all our hearts.

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And I just think about how I want my kids to trust me.

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When I'm giving them instruction, telling them something that I know will be good for them,

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I just want them to trust me.

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God, I know you are a perfect father.

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I am not a perfect father.

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Sometimes I want my kids to trust me and then what I say is not good,

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but that never happens with you. You are totally trustworthy. So help

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us to trust you with all of our hearts, give us total trust in you. Help us not

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to trust in ourselves. Help us not to lean on our own understanding.

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God our own understanding is not worthy of trust. It's not trustworthy. Our own understanding is feeble and faulty.

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