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

He spoke to my heart and my wife Heather's heart as we were reading through these verses

just a couple of years ago and God opened our eyes and our heart in a way we did not see

coming to bring another child through adoption into our home.

And there's a lot I could talk about when it comes to how God spoke to my heart and

our heart on that particular day and separate ways and then we came together and realized

what he was saying to both of us.

But it revolved around this picture of children being a heritage and a blessing which we had

at that time for children in our home.

We were actually waiting on the process of adopting one other and then God put it on

our hearts to continue with another adoption process because of the blessing that children

are.

Lots of them, a quiver full of them and it's interesting this Psalm talks about building

in the first two verses and when we think about building, we often think about building

careers, businesses, portfolios, resumes.

But the Bible actually prioritizes building a family with quivers full of children.

That's a really different perspective than the world around us today.

You look at the trend lines, they're clear.

Young adults in our culture are putting off marriage until later and later.

Sometimes in the name of building a resume, getting an education in a job, building a career

as if marriage is a barrier to that and kids and even larger barrier or even burden that

would prevent that.

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