#957 – Do Not Be Still, O God! (Psalm 83:1)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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God, we need your peace in the middle of the unkown. Help us to turn to Your Word in dependence on You, for You are our only hope. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:04.8	Psalm chapter 83, verse 1.
0:07.9	Oh God, do not keep silence.
0:10.7	Do not hold your peace or be still, oh God.
0:14.9	Exclamation point.
0:16.9	And this Psalm is a cry from the very beginning for help from God amidst all kinds of turmoil
0:25.9	and trouble.
0:27.0	The rest of the Psalm, you go on to see that the context is people who are opposing God's
0:32.5	people.
0:33.5	But the cry is something we hear all throughout the Psalms. I just want you to think about this
0:39.0	verse, first verse in the Psalm, oh God, do not keep silence. Do not hold your peace or be still,
0:47.4	oh God. Why is the Psalmist crying out? God, don't stay silent. Don't hold your peace. Don't be still. Because the
0:56.4	psalmist knows that if God is silent, then he has no hope.
1:03.2	The psalmist knows that if God holds back peace, there will be no peace.
1:08.1	The psalmist knows that if God is still, nothing will happen to help God's people
1:14.4	in the midst of this trial and trouble. And that's, in a sense, the heart of prayer, isn't it?
1:21.6	Like we are crying out to God because we know we need His word. If He is silent, we are hopeless.
1:29.2	If He holds us peace, we will have no peace.
1:32.8	If He is still, then we will have no help.
1:36.7	We depend on God for all of these things.
1:39.4	We depend on His Word, for wisdom, for guidance.
1:43.2	We depend on His peace in a world where there's so much temptation to anxiety and worry, particularly
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