#793 – Spent for the Souls of Others (2 Corinthians 12:15)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Are you spending your life for the good of the souls of others? God, give us a desire to spend our lives for the good of others.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | 2. Corinthians chapter 12 verse 15 |
| 0:10.0 | I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. |
| 0:17.8 | What a simple statement that reflects a somber commitment to say to other people I will |
| 0:28.8 | gladly most gladly spend my life for your soul. Be spent like God use my life however you want for the good of these other souls. |
| 0:49.6 | What a picture of commitment to say my life is not ultimately about me. I am living for the glory of |
| 1:00.4 | God and specifically for the glory of God in others. I want to spend my life |
| 1:07.0 | for the good of others, for the eternal good of others. I want my life to be spent by God for that purpose. I just ask you today |
| 1:21.6 | like is that your posture when you think about the people around you in |
| 1:28.9 | your sphere of influence, are you spending your life for the good of their souls? |
| 1:40.8 | I think if we're not careful we can get so caught up in the busyness of life and just |
| 1:46.6 | getting all the things done that we need to get done that we don't take time to stop and say, |
| 1:55.0 | how can I spend my life today for the good of souls around me. God spend me, make my life spent today for the good of souls |
| 2:10.8 | around me. Oh God please teach us to live like this. |
| 2:16.0 | God, give us, we pray. |
| 2:18.0 | Yes, ultimately a focus on you, but then flowing from this, a desire to spend our lives for others good. |
| 2:29.2 | God please help us to spend our lives for the good of people in our families, for the good of people in our |
| 2:37.0 | churches. Help us to spend our lives for the good of those who are without Christ all around us. |
| 2:45.2 | God please help us to spend our lives for their eternal good. God please spend our lives |
| 2:52.0 | for the good of people far from us. God we pray for the good of people far from us. |
| 2:54.4 | God, we pray for the fur people in Sudan in Darfur. |
| 2:58.8 | God, over a million of them, no followers of Jesus. |
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