#660 – Hearing and Doing the Word (1 Kings 17:5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
May we, like Elijah, hear God's Word and obey God's Word.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | First Kings chapter 17 verse 5 |
| 0:09.5 | so he went and did |
| 0:11.8 | according to the word of the Lord. |
| 0:15.4 | This is a phrase that we see repeated multiple times |
| 0:19.9 | in Elijah's life. |
| 0:21.7 | God speaks to him, and the Bible says he went and did |
| 0:24.6 | according to the word of the Lord. |
| 0:26.6 | In fact, you go through and you just read 1st King 17, 1st Kings 18, |
| 0:31.0 | 1st Kings 19, you see the prominent role of the word of God in Elijah's life. |
| 0:36.9 | As God speaks, Elijah obeys. |
| 0:40.8 | Not every time, like we see in 1st Kings's chapter 19 and we see the effects of that but the whole |
| 0:46.1 | picture is what I desire from my life what I trust you desire for your life that when God speaks we would obey. |
| 0:55.7 | They would hear his word and go and do according to his word. |
| 1:01.7 | And God moves in powerful ways as Elijah does this. God provides for |
| 1:06.4 | Elijah in the middle of famine. God uses Elijah to bring a woman's son from death to life. |
| 1:13.7 | God brings down rain from heaven through Elijah and his prayers. |
| 1:19.1 | God brings down fire from heaven through |
| 1:21.3 | alyja and his prayers as Elijah goes and does according to God's |
| 1:27.0 | word. Don't underestimate what God wants to do in and through your life, in and through your family, and through your work, and and through your church, as you go and do according to his word, not just hear it but do it. Think James |
| 1:46.0 | chapter one, do not merely be hears of the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what |
| 1:51.6 | it says. God may it be so in our lives. God help us to be obedient |
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