#706 – Prayerful Dependence on You (Nehemiah 6:9)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
This short prayer encourages us that God invites us to bring all our petitions to Him regardless of how big or small they may seem.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:05.7 | Nehemiah chapter six verse nine and now god strengthen my hands. |
| 0:15.0 | That is a simple prayer. |
| 0:18.0 | Such a beautiful, simple prayer. |
| 0:23.0 | As Nehemiah is doing monumental work, like he's rebuilding the walls around Jerusalem, he's leading out in this massive project, |
| 0:32.0 | but what I love about Nehemiah 69 is he comes to this point |
| 0:36.8 | where he just looks up to heaven and he's like God my hands hurt and |
| 0:41.8 | God is pleased with prayer like that. |
| 0:47.0 | Do you just think about it, this is so breathtaking when you think about it. |
| 0:52.0 | Like we can pray about huge... so breathtaking when you think about it. |
| 0:52.6 | Like we can pray about huge things |
| 0:56.8 | and about small things. |
| 0:59.4 | Like we can pray when we are, someone around us is facing cancer. |
| 1:06.5 | And at the same time, we can pray and should pray |
| 1:11.2 | when we are someone around us has a cold. |
| 1:15.0 | Like God is honored, not by the size of our prayers, like it's not like, |
| 1:21.0 | oh this is too small to bring before God. |
| 1:23.9 | I know. |
| 1:25.1 | It's not about the size of our prayers. |
| 1:26.5 | It's about the growth of a relationship with God |
| 1:31.0 | where we are constantly looking to Him in everything. |
| 1:35.0 | And in this way, it honors God in a sense more when we pray like small prayers. |
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