#840 – Prayerlessness is Pride (Revelation 3:17)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
When we do not pray, we show that we believe we are self sufficient. God help us to see that apart from You we can do nothing.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Revelation chapter 3 verse 17. |
| 0:09.0 | For you say I am rich, I have prospered and I need nothing not realizing that you are wretched |
| 0:16.2 | pitiable poor blind and naked |
| 0:22.4 | these are penetrating words from Jesus to his people, specifically the church |
| 0:28.3 | in Laiyatasia, who were a self-sufficient people, or so they thought. |
| 0:35.0 | They thought they had it all together, they thought they had all that they needed. |
| 0:40.0 | You say, I am rich, she just says, I have prospered. I need nothing. |
| 0:45.8 | It's a pretty potent picture of pride in Revelation chapter 3 verse 17. |
| 0:52.0 | A people who think they can do it on their own. |
| 0:55.8 | A people who think they have all they need. |
| 0:59.1 | A people who were prayerless, who were not pursuing God, who were prideful before him. |
| 1:05.7 | And it makes sense, doesn't it? |
| 1:07.1 | Like, prayerlessness is pride. Whenever we don't pray, when we are not a prayerful people, it is because |
| 1:20.0 | we have become a prideful people. |
| 1:26.4 | We are convinced that we can do things on our own. That's why we're not praying. |
| 1:28.0 | A praying people know they need God's help. |
| 1:30.9 | A praying people are pleading for God's provision, a praying people |
| 1:34.7 | are pleading for God's provision in our own lives and others lives, and when we don't pray, |
| 1:40.2 | when we are prayerless we are pride full we are basically saying with our lives I'm |
| 1:48.8 | rich I have prospered, I need nothing. |
| 1:52.5 | When the exact opposite is actually true, |
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