#611 – Meditating on God's Word (Joshua 1:8)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
We want good success according to God's Word and not according to this world. Might God make us a people who are marked by meditation on His Word.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.8 | Joshua chapter 1 verse 8 |
| 0:08.8 | This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that |
| 0:17.2 | you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. |
| 0:22.7 | For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. |
| 0:30.1 | Just start from the back of this first and ask the question, |
| 0:34.0 | would you like good success in your life, |
| 0:38.0 | in your work, in your family? |
| 0:42.0 | I think we all want good success. So maybe maybe there's a bad kind of success. |
| 0:51.0 | I think probably so. There's some kinds of success. I think probably so. There's some kinds of success that are actually |
| 0:55.5 | not good, but I think we all want good success. Do you want your way to be |
| 1:01.5 | prosperous? Do you want your way to be prosperous? |
| 1:03.0 | Do you want your way to be good? |
| 1:06.0 | I think we all want that. |
| 1:09.0 | So this is God saying, |
| 1:12.0 | I've wired you this way so that you would want what is good, prosperous, successful. |
| 1:22.0 | So what's the key then? |
| 1:24.4 | First 8 says this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate |
| 1:32.4 | on it day and night so that you may be careful to do |
| 1:36.7 | according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way |
| 1:41.1 | prosperous, then you will have good success. |
| 1:43.7 | It couldn't be any clearer. |
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