#658 – Fixing Our Eyes on God (Proverbs 31:25)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We are prone to be anxious, but when we fear God we do not have to be afraid of the future.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Proverbs chapter 31, verse 25.
0:08.8	Strength and dignity are her clothing,
0:11.9	and she laughs at the time to come.
0:15.0	What a phrase. You think about this verse near the end of this chapter describing this woman who displays the glory of God in her life
0:27.0	and her marriage and her family.
0:30.5	And this
0:35.0	picture of her, picture of courage and integrity in her,
0:38.0	and integrity, strength and dignity in her.
0:42.0	And then the Bible says she laughs at the time to come.
0:46.4	The picture is she laughs at the future
0:49.4	at what is to come in the days ahead
0:51.8	because she's not worried about it.
0:54.3	She's not afraid of what's coming in the future.
0:58.2	She is confident. She's strong.
1:01.0	And her strength doesn't come from herself the whole picture here at the
1:05.1	clothes of the book of proverbs is she fears God that's the whole picture in
1:11.0	the very end of this chapter.
1:12.8	Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
1:15.3	but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
1:18.0	And when you fear God, you will not be afraid of the future.
1:25.0	Oh, get this, this is so important when you or I fear God,
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