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Pray the Word with David Platt

#662 – Honoring God and Our Families (Proverbs 17:6)

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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🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

May we bring glory to God in the way that we care for our families.

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

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Proverbs chapter 17 verse 6

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grandchildren are the crown of the aged and the glory of children is their fathers.

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What I picture of God's design for the good of families.

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Think about it, there's three generations here.

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You've got grandparents, parents, and children, and... parents and

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we all fit into the spectrum in some sense like we all are children with parents. We all are grandchildren. Some of us are parents of children. Some are

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grandparents with grandchildren. and the picture here is God has designed our lives to

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honor our parents and our grandparents.

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God has designed our lives as parents and grandparents

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to be glorified in the way we love our children, in the way we love our children and the way we love our grandchildren.

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So as we see these three generations I just want to encourage you to think about your life

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and think about how you can honor your parents, even just to thank

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God for them, to pray for them, and grandparents as well. How can you honor them? How can you pray for them? I think in my own life like

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None of my grandparents are living.

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My dad has gone to be with the Lord.

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So when it comes to these groups in my life,

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I think about my mom.

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I thank God so much for my mom and my dad and their parents and by God's grace for the legacy of faith they passed on to me.

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I could go on and on and on, far beyond the scope of this podcast, just talking about God's grace toward me in them.

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I want to honor them.

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I'm so thankful for them.

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