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.

What a picture of God saying, mark the people.

Listen to this language who sigh and groan over all the abominations, the sins that are being committed

in Israel. So it's not just people who abstain from those abominations, who abstain from

sin and immorality and idolatry, but whose hearts break over it, who hate sin and idolatry

and immorality, not just in their own lives, but in the world around them, and they sigh and

they groan over it. Is this true of you? Is this true of me?

Yes, yes, that we would sigh and groan over our own propensity to sin,

that we would hate sin in our own lives, we would run from it.

So to start there, we sigh and groan over any inkling towards sin in our own hearts.

And then that we would also sigh and groan, that we would hate and be broken over sin

that we see around us, that it would cause us to weep and mourn just the pictures of

immorality and idolatry of sin and its effects around us.

Oh God, we pray that you would make us this kind of people who hate sin like you hate sin.

In our lives, God, we pray for a healthy, holy hatred and disgust for sin in our lives.

Or a sighing and a groaning that just longs to be free from all sin in us.

God, we pray for that in our own lives.

Help us to hate the sin that we're prone toward and run from it by your power by your spirit in us and then oh god

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