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Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Psalm chapter 83 verse 1.

Oh God, do not keep silence.

Do not hold your peace or be still, oh God, exclamation point. And this

Psalm is a cry from the very beginning for help from God amidst all kinds of turmoil and trouble.

The rest of the Psalm you go on to see that the context is people who are opposing God's people. But the cry is something

we hear all throughout the Psalms. I just want you to think about this this verse

first verse in the Psalm, oh God, do not keep silence, do not hold your peace

or be still, oh God.

Why is the Psalmist crying out, God, don't stay silent, don't hold your peace, don't be still, because

the Psalmist knows that if God is silent, then he has no hope. The Psalms knows that if God holds back peace there will be no peace.

The Psalms knows that if God is still nothing will happen to help God's people in the midst of this

trial and trouble.

And that's, in a sense, the heart of prayer, isn't it? we are crying out to God because we know we need

his word and if he is silent we are hopeless. If he holds his peace we will have no peace. If he holds his peace, we will have no peace. If he is still, then we will have no help.

We depend on God for all of these things. We depend on His word, for wisdom, for guidance. we depend on his word for wisdom for guidance we depend on his

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