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Pray the Word with David Platt

Faithful & Trustworthy (Ecclesiastes 11:5)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 11:5, David Platt praises God for His work even when we don’t understand all that is happening around us.

Transcript

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

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Ecclesiasties chapter 11 verse 5 as you do not know the way the spirit comes to the

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bones in the womb of a woman with child.

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So you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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I love this verse as it's a sobering, humbling reminder that there are so many things in the world that are

0:27.9

mysterious that we don't understand, that we don't know.

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As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones

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in the womb of a woman with child,

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like so much mystery, No matter how much science we know about what God is doing in the

0:49.2

formation of a child in the womb no matter how much knowledge we gain about how that amazing

0:58.5

miraculous process takes place there's still a mystery to it all and specifically not just how a body is

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formed but how a spirit is formed and wed together with that body.

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So, the author of Ecclesiasties,

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rights, you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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And I remember reading this verse specifically at a time when I was walking through challenges,

1:32.1

walking through trials, things that I just

1:35.5

didn't understand why this or that was happening.

1:39.0

And I remember reading this verse

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and being reminded by God through his spirit that I don't

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understand all that he is doing and in my finite mind I could never understand all that he is doing in my life, in others lives, in the world around me.

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But praise God, he is all wise.

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He is good, and he is working all the details of my life

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