#678 – Devotion to God Alone (2 Kings 17:33)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Lord, help us to worship You and only You. Give us grace to flee the temptation of pledging our lives to anything other than You.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Second Kings chapter 17 verse 33 |
| 0:09.8 | so they feared the Lord but also served their own gods after the manner of the |
| 0:17.2 | nations from among whom they had been carried away. |
| 0:21.2 | What an interesting phrase. They feared God. They |
| 0:28.1 | worshipped God in some way. Yet at the same time they served their own gods just like the nations the world around them. |
| 0:40.4 | What a picture of how possible it is for you and I to give some worship to God |
| 0:51.0 | the one true capital G God and yet give some worship to other gods just like the rest of the world |
| 1:01.4 | around us. |
| 1:08.0 | I gather with the church on Sunday and worship God. |
| 1:21.2 | But then all week long bow just like others around us in pursuit of money, position, fame, honor, praise, a name for ourselves. |
| 1:32.0 | Sex, satisfaction, and this or that pursuit in this world, whatever it might be that we also |
| 1:42.0 | worship alongside the one true God. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh God, may it not be so. |
| 1:49.0 | God, I pray it would not be so in my life. |
| 1:53.6 | Please help me to serve and worship you only. |
| 1:56.9 | Please open my eyes, even right now in a fresh way. |
| 2:01.3 | Today, to idolatry in my own heart. God I pray this for my own heart. I pray this for others who are listening to this God help us to see open our eyes to see that which we are worshiping alongside the worship of you. |
| 2:17.0 | God we know we know that you alone are worthy of all our worship. |
| 2:21.0 | We want to look at the things in this world |
| 2:24.4 | around us rightly, not like the rest of the world does. We want to worship you |
| 2:29.2 | and then have a proper perspective on money on fame on honor for our name or we don't want to |
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