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

So I'm chapter 41, verse 1,

blessed is the one who considers the poor and the day of trouble the Lord delivers him.

You know, I want to actually read that one more time and I want to emphasize how

that first phrase ends in an exclamation point. So I'm 41, verse 1 says,

blessed is the one who considers the poor exclamation point. And this is God saying to you and

me right now that there is blessing that is found in listening to the language considering the

poor, stopping and contemplating, thinking about praying for and the implication clearly is

working toward the good of the poor. I just want to ask each of us to consider is that happening

in our lives or specifically how is that happening in our lives? Are we stopping in our lives and

thinking about praying for and working for the good of the poor around us? How is that playing

out in your life? How is that playing out in my life? This is God with an exclamation point in

his word saying there's blessing that is found here. Obviously this verse in addition to hundreds

of verses all over the Bible to talk about God's consideration of the poor, the way God sees and

knows things about and works for the good of the poor and how God calls his people to consider the

poor. Command us to do this. Psalm 41, one is telling us there is blessing that is found here. So

I want to encourage you today just to do this, to consider the poor, to think about, pray for and

consider how God is calling you and me to work for the good of the poor around us and the implication

all over scripture and not just implied but explicitly stated over and over again is to specifically

consider those who are physically poor. So who are the poor around you and who are the poor around me

and who are the poor around us and the world so near to us far from us physically poor and then

to consider on top of that spiritual poverty? So we pray for unreached people, people three billion

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