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

Ezekiel chapter 9, verse 4. And the Lord said to him, pass through the city, through Jerusalem,

and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are

committed in it. Did you get that picture? God just told

Ezekiel to put a mark on the foreheads of people who are sighing and groaning over sins that

are being committed in Jerusalem. So there's a differentiation here between some people, most people actually, who are not sighing and groaning

over the sins of the people. And then there's some who are so burdened by the sin that they see

around that they are sighing and groaning over it. I read this and I can't help but to think in my

own life and to ask us, if God were to

send someone throughout your city or my city to do this, to go throughout the city and I identify

who's sighing and groaning, like burdened to the point of heartbroken, weeping over sin that you see in your own life

or sin that you see in the lives of people around you.

And I asked that question, I'm immediately convicted that that description of sighing and groaning

over sin doesn't describe my life as much as it ought to. So I want to start this prayer just with

confession. God, I confess that I'm too complacent with sin in my own life and sin in the world around me.

I feel too desensitized to it, that it doesn't shock me and it doesn't lead me to sigh and

groan as it ought.

And I pray in my own life.

And to the extent anyone else is in the same boat with me, we pray that you would cause our

hearts to break over sin in our lives. God help us to hate sin in our lives to not be casual

with it, to run from it, to flee from it, to pursue holiness with passion when we sin to be

broken over it, to seriously and soberly confess it,

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