#622 – The Power of God's Presence (Judges 16:20)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 23 April 2019
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If you are in Christ, you are not alone. God will never leave you nor forsake you.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Judges chapter 16 verse 20 and she said the Philistines are upon you |
| 0:10.9 | Samson and he awoke from his sleep and said I will go out as other times and shake myself |
| 0:16.2 | free. |
| 0:17.7 | But he did not know that the Lord had left him. |
| 0:25.0 | The Lord had left him. |
| 0:27.0 | Sampson thought, well, I have the power to shake myself free from any circumstance, to conquer any enemy. |
| 0:37.6 | But he had no idea that his power did not come from himself. |
| 0:44.0 | His power came from God's presence with Him. |
| 0:47.8 | He was totally dependent on God being with Him and once the Lord had left him he had nothing. |
| 0:59.0 | And the reality is the same exact thing is true for you and me. |
| 1:07.2 | In and of ourselves, we do not have the power, the ability to live out the life God is called us to live. |
| 1:18.3 | A life of holiness before God, compassion for others, wisdom in this world, in our lives and work and family |
| 1:31.2 | as witnesses to the world, |
| 1:34.0 | to the good news of God's grace in Jesus. |
| 1:38.4 | Like we can't do any of those things |
| 1:41.6 | apart from God's power in us at work through us yet the beauty of what the Bible |
| 1:49.1 | teaches is that for all who trust in Jesus, the spirit of God dwells in us. |
| 1:56.4 | The spirit of God dwells in you. |
| 1:58.6 | If you have repented of your sin, placed your faith in Jesus as Savior, Lord of your life, |
| 2:05.0 | you have the Spirit of God in you, |
| 2:08.0 | which means you have power in you to do all that God has called you too. So believe this, believe this. |
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