Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Maybe it's counting just sunlight at the time when they would be awake,

but the picture is definitely hours, just reading from the book of the law of the Lord their God,

just hearing from God for hours. And then another quarter of it, so more hours,

confessing sin and worshipping. When you put it together half the day in listening to God's word

and confessing sin and worshipping God, like when was the last time you did this?

You individually or you as a part of your church, I spent half of a day just reading God's word

together and then crying out in confession of sin and worship. This is so rare among some of us

have never experienced that. I think about this Friday night our church family is going to gather

for all night prayer from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and just seeking God with His Word in prayer and in worship

and in confession. And I'll be the first to admit that until just a couple of years ago, I had never

done that in about 40 years in the church. I had never done that. God help us,

help us to be serious about seeking you, to be serious about hearing from your Word,

to be serious about confession of sin in our lives. God reprave for a spirit of repentance among us

in each of our lives. And then the churches were a part of God reprave it. Nehemiah 9-3

would be normal among your people today. God, it feels so abnormal. It feels so distant from us.

Many of us have been followers of Jesus for decades have not experienced some of these things we see

in your Word. And God, we want to experience all of you. We want to experience all that you have

for us. So God, we pray that you would help us individually to set aside time like this hours

just with us in your Word, hours in confession and worship. And then to do that in our churches

together, we would not be just kind of in and out on Sundays. And that's what church looks like

for us. God may it not be so. God reprave and make us of people who are spending hours just listening

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