#795 – A Disciplined Pursuit of God (Proverbs 5:23)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Growth in spiritual disciplines will not happen accidentally. Let's ask God to help us not to be led into folly, but to carry out our lives in disciplined pursuit of Him.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.0	Proverbs chapter 5 verse 23.
0:09.0	He dies for lack of discipline. and because of his great folly, he is led astray.
0:19.8	As I read that verse, I think about my own life discipline like there have been times in my life,
0:29.7	times in my life, seasons in my life, even in my life as a pastor, where I have lacked discipline.
0:39.4	Discipline in seeking God, discipline in His Word, in prayer, in spiritual disciplines of study and meditation
0:50.3	and fasting, and when I have lacked discipline it has had a disastrous effect on not just my life, my relationship with God, but others around me.
1:10.0	Discipline is so important.
1:14.0	Not a rigid, obligatory, dutiful discipline.
1:20.0	Like, okay, I must be rigid in having this amount of time in prayer and this amount of time in the word and this amount of time and this or that because I have to
1:30.4	But instead a disciplined pursuit of God because I want to and all I want that in my life
1:39.9	you look at all these proverbs this exhortation after exhortation to seek wisdom, to keep your
1:46.8	path, keep your feet walking in the path of God, trusting in the Lord, acknowledging him in all your ways, avoiding
1:56.8	evil, all of that requires discipline.
2:00.1	Like that doesn't happen accidentally,'s intentionality and it's not
2:05.0	discipline because we have to it's discipline because we want to we don't want to
2:09.7	wander into evil we don't want to wander away from God we don't want to live foolish lives we don't want to wander away from God. We don't want to live foolish lives. We don't want to be caught in the snare like we see in Proverbs 5 this warning against adultery that just can be so ruinous in a life in a marriage.
2:25.0	So, so, Proverbs 5 ends with these words.
2:31.0	He dies for lack of discipline and because of his great folly he is
2:36.2	led astray. Without discipline we will be led into folly and we will go astray. So God we pray for discipline in our lives. We pray for a discipline pursuit of you. We pray that spiritual disciplines would be active in our lives, regular, consistent, disciplined
3:01.1	praying, discipline disciplined reading and
3:03.6	reading and meditating on your word, disciplined worship,
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