God Cares for Widows (Job 22:9)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Job 22:9, David Platt reminds Christians of the unique ways that God cares for widows.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:30.9	And in this verse specifically saying, you're suffering because you have not cared for others in need.
0:37.7	Specifically, you have sent widows away empty in the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
0:44.2	And this is not true. We know this is not true. Obviously, Job is not perfect, but we know
0:50.4	the Job was blameless before God that he was honoring God with his life in the way he loved
0:56.8	and cared for others in need. So honestly struggling some of these days with what verse to pray
1:05.6	according to Injo because especially when these miserable comfortors are speaking they are
1:12.3	speaking things that are not true at the same time. And we've talked about this at different
1:18.3	points. What they're saying is in some sense, biblically true, that God does call his people
1:25.7	to care for widows. God does cause his people to care for orphans, to care for children who
1:34.4	are in need of a home because it is true that God does in his word call his people to care for
1:41.8	widows. God does call his people to care for children in need. And so I want to lead us to pray
1:49.7	according to God's word along these lines, even as we realize that this truth is being
1:58.0	totally misapplied to Job. But it is a reminder when we read Job 22 verse 9 that God has called all
2:07.5	of us to care for widows and children in need that this is religion that God our Father accepts
2:14.1	pure and faultless. And so let's look at our lives and ask how are we caring for widows in need
2:22.6	personally in the churches of which we're apart and how are we caring for children in need. God
2:30.8	we pray that these things would mark us. We want to be blameless before you and selfless in our
2:38.9	love for others. We pray that you would make us that kind of people. God, we pray that a mark of
2:48.5	our lives and our families and our churches would be care for widows. You know, I think about
2:55.4	just immediately just pictures of that kind of care in the church around me. And I just
3:02.0	I praise you for your goodness expressed toward widows in need. Like we read about in
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