Generous Giving (2 Corinthians 8:7)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Corinthians 8:7, David Platt encourages us to excel in generous giving for the spread of the gospel. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.4	2 Corinthians chapter 8, verse 7.
0:10.9	But as you excel in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness,
0:19.5	and in our love for you, see that you excel in this act of grace
0:24.8	also. Oh, this is so good. These two chapters, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, are talking about the grace
0:31.3	of giving, of generosity, of giving generously, sacrificially, cheerfully to others. And why I love this verse in particular,
0:41.6	I want to lead us to pray according to it is because of this exhortation to excel in giving.
0:48.8	Not to just kind of give half-heartedly or to be okay in giving, but no, to excel in giving. Just as we excel in
0:57.2	everything. And I love the list here in faith, in speech, and knowledge, and earnestness, in love,
1:02.7	and in giving. And part of me thinks, I don't need to explain that anymore. It's just got to help us
1:08.4	to do this. So let me just pray this over us right now. And as we pray,
1:13.8	just ask God to show us individually any ways he's calling us practically to excel in any of these
1:22.1	areas and specifically in giving in ways that we're not excelling right now. So God, we pray for conviction from
1:29.6	your Holy Spirit, even as we pray this, for any ways you're calling us to excel in any of these areas.
1:37.3	God, we pray that you would help us to excel in faith. Just pray that over each other today. Help us to excel and trust in you. Please reveal
1:47.8	any areas of our lives where we're not trusting in you right now. And help us to excel in faith.
1:56.4	God help us to excel in speech. God, may our words be excellent. The words we speak to others, the words
2:04.4	we mumble under our breath, the words we write, the words we post. God, may everything we say,
2:13.2	all of our speech be excellent, be edifying to others and glorifying to you.
2:21.0	God, help us to excel in knowledge, help us to grow in knowledge today, knowledge of you,
2:26.8	knowledge of that which is true.
2:28.8	God, we pray that you would help us not to be lazy in knowledge, but to pursue, as Joseus says, to press on to know you.
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