Above All, Seek Righteousness (1 Kings 16:25)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Kings 16:25, David Platt asks God to help us to seek after righteousness.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.5 | In 1 Kings 16, as King, you'll see that he was a strong leader who strengthened the nation |
| 0:40.4 | in all kinds of ways. So from the outside, it might look like |
| 0:46.6 | Omri was successful as King. It might even seem like Omri had led God's people to prosper in certain |
| 0:56.9 | ways. But without going into all the details here in 1 Kings 16 for sake of time, |
| 1:04.0 | the bottom line is Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, more evil than all who were |
| 1:13.0 | before him. So apparently success and prosperity in the eyes of the world does not equal success |
| 1:25.4 | in prosperity before God. Don't be deceived. Just because you do well financially, just because |
| 1:39.4 | you do well materially, just because you experience success or prosperity in any way in this world |
| 1:50.1 | do not assume this means that you are pleasing God and that your life is counting for what matters |
| 2:01.6 | most. You may be totally displeasing God and your life missing the whole point of what matters |
| 2:10.7 | most and still be successful in this world. So God, we pray, you would guard us all from the |
| 2:20.2 | deception of success and prosperity and gain in this world. God, we pray that you would guard us |
| 2:29.9 | all from equating prosperity in this world with prosperity before you. Success in this world |
| 2:40.5 | with success in what matters most according to your word. God, regardless of any kind or level of |
| 2:51.2 | success or prosperity in this world, even in the church world, God, I pray for this knowing in my |
| 2:57.1 | own heart and life having experienced at times success, so to speak in the eyes of the church |
| 3:04.5 | world and yet experiencing that totally devoid of intimacy with you with a life that was not pleasing |
| 3:14.0 | to you in those moments. God, we pray that you would help us to live for what matters most in |
| 3:21.8 | your sight. God, we pray that you would help us to seek you above all, to walk in a holiness |
| 3:29.0 | before you and obedience to you. God, we pray that you would help us to seek you and your righteous |
| 3:34.8 | is above everything in this world. God, help us to do good, help us to proclaim the gospel, |
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