Encouraged to Pray (Luke 18:1)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Luke 18:1, David Platt teaches the importance of persevering in prayer without losing heart.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Luke chapter 18, verse 1, and he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray
0:11.8	and not lose heart. Oh, one of verse, like memorizes verse and hide it away in your heart.
0:18.5	How Jesus specifically taught a parable in Luke 18 with one purpose, encouraging his followers
0:26.7	to always pray and never lose heart. I just emphasize those words because I need them in my own
0:35.2	heart as I pray for a son who I've been praying for for years along with my family and so many
0:42.3	others who've joined us in praying for him who's overseas and who've been waiting to go pick him
0:49.2	up and bring him into our home and day after day after day we plead and nothing has happened and
0:56.0	I need Luke 18 1 in this matter and so many others. I think about things we have been praying for
1:05.7	in our church family this week is we gathered every night and think about one testimony of a mom
1:13.8	her daughter had prayed for years for her and she's 92 years old and she has come to faith in Jesus
1:22.6	she's about to be baptized and 92 don't give up always pray and never lose heart trusting as we've
1:33.2	talked about on different podcast episodes trusting the power of God the wisdom of God and the
1:39.4	love of God as we pray but never losing heart and then specifically I would just add the context
1:45.6	here and Luke 18 when you get to the end of this parable she just says well not God give justice
1:52.3	to his elect who cry to him day and night will he lay long over them I tell you he will give justice
1:59.6	to them speedily nevertheless when the son of man comes will be fine faith on earth so pray for
2:07.2	justice and not lose heart and a world of injustice and to trust love that phrase when the son of
2:14.8	man comes will he find faith on earth to pray and not lose heart in such a way that whenever Jesus
2:23.6	comes back he would have come back today or next week or next year 10 20 years from now that he
2:30.2	would find us trusting him not with having lost heart but with a full heart trusting in him God
2:37.8	teaches to pray like this teaches to pray and not lose heart God I pray for every single person
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