#854 – The God Who Remembers (Psalm 74:1–3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

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God's people are right to call upon Him to keep His promises. How much more should we pray this way today since we have seen God's promised redemption fulfilled through the death and resurrection of Christ? Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.1	Psalm chapter 74, verses 1 through 3.
0:10.5	Oh God, why do you cast us off forever?
0:14.8	Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
0:19.0	Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your pasture. Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old,
0:22.4	which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you have
0:28.7	dwelt. Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins. The enemy has destroyed everything in the
0:34.7	sanctuary. What a powerful, heartfelt prayer born from a painful,
0:44.4	hurting situation. The picture here is God's people crying out for him to remember them.
0:53.3	Now let's think about that, To ask God to remember us.
0:58.3	It feels kind of bold, doesn't it? To say to the omniscient God in the universe, remember us,
1:05.1	like maybe you have forgotten about us. But the picture is not saying, maybe you've forgotten about us, God, do you even remember us?
1:14.8	Instead, the picture, and we see this all throughout the Bible, is calling on God to be faithful
1:22.0	to the promises he has made. And obviously, we know he is faithful, and he will be faithful to his promises. But when we pray,
1:31.9	we are bringing those promises before God and we are asking God, show yourself faithful in this
1:37.4	way and that way. And this kind of prayer is pleasing to God to say, God, I'm trusting in your promises and I'm asking you to be faithful to them.
1:49.2	This kind of prayer we see all throughout the Old Testament. I think about Exodus chapter 2 when
1:54.5	God's people were slaves in Egypt. And the Bible says God remembered them. God heard them. He knew their suffering. It's not that God
2:04.6	had forgotten them, but it's a reminder that God does not forget his people, that God will be
2:11.3	faithful to His promises, and that God's people are right to call upon God to be faithful to his promises.
2:18.8	So let's just pray and think about how this affects the way we pray,
2:24.8	particularly in light of God's faithfulness to send His Son to His people.
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