Courageous in Faith (2 Chronicles 17:6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Chronicles 17:6, David Platt asks God to help us to be strong and courageous in faith today.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.4	2 Chronicles chapter 17 verse 6. His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord.
0:13.2	What a simple verse and significant description of Jahasafat that I'm guessing we all want to be
0:22.1	true in our lives. Let me read it again. His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord.
0:30.8	Oh, don't we all want courageous hearts in God's ways? Let me just think about that.
0:38.8	Courage, like we don't want to live lives of timidity and fear, and we see all over scripture,
0:47.1	God constantly saying to his people, do not be afraid, do not be dismayed, be strong, be courageous.
0:55.4	His heart was courageous, but there's all kinds of things we could be courageous in that are not good.
1:00.8	Like if we're courageous in the ways of the world and we're bold and confident in running after
1:06.9	the stuff of this world, that leads to sorrow and death, but to have a courageous heart in the ways
1:14.6	of the Lord, to read a scripture, and to walk away with courage to obey, courage to trust,
1:24.2	courage to believe. Think about that in your life today. I mean, there's some of
1:31.5	you who are walking through some really challenging times. It takes a lot of courage to have faith,
1:40.5	to trust God, and things are really hard and wearing, tiring, exhausting, frustrating,
1:49.6	confusing to have strength and courage to trust God, or maybe when it comes to God's commands,
1:59.0	and obedience to his commands, and a world where obedience to those commands will lead us to go
2:05.6	totally against the grain of the culture around us, and there's risk and there's cost.
2:10.5	Whether it's sharing the gospel and some of the risks that that might bring in the place where
2:16.6	you work or amidst relationships you have, or I think about brothers and sisters around the world
2:22.6	who are sharing the gospel in really hard places right now. There's a lot of courage just to speak
2:30.4	up. I think about many of our urgent partners in places like Somalia or North Korea and the
2:36.6	courage that's needed in order to proclaim the gospel knowing that a prison camp might be coming
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