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

In the prosperity of this world, here's Heyman talking about all the splendor of his riches,

all the promotions that he's received from the king. Now he's been advanced in this way or that way.

And you read this and it reeks of pride in a way that I hope leads all of us to evaluate our own

hearts and to ask to what extent are we living for the splendor, for the claim of this world,

for more possessions, for more prosperity in this world. We've been called to live for

much higher things than this. Let him who boasts, Jeremiah 9 says, boasts not in his wealth,

his riches, his might, his power, fame, know that him who boasts, boasts that he knows me,

that he understands me, says the Lord. Is that what you're living for today?

Is that what's driving you today? Just to know, God, that he would be your only boasts,

is what Paul says in Galatians chapter 6, right? My only boasts is in the cross of Jesus,

to which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. I'm not living for this world.

I'm living to know and walk with Jesus. I'm living to know and walk with God. Oh, God, please help us,

never to live for the splendor and a claim and applause of this world.

God, help us to fix our eyes on you, on knowing you, on pursuing you, on enjoying you,

on understanding you, on loving you. God, may that be our boasts today. And tomorrow,

in the next day, in the next day, God, may this be the driving passion of our lives,

to know, and understand, and walk faithfully with you. God, please, may it be so.

And me, please, may it be so. And all those who are listening right now,

God, we pray that you would deliver us, save us, cleanse us from all pride. We pray for humility

in our lives that joyfully is content in knowing you, and knowing you, and loving you with all

of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. God, may it be so. And each of our lives we pray in

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