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

2nd Kings chapter 22 verse 11. When the king heard the words of the book of the law,

he tore his clothes. I'm just going to stop right there. I want you to get this picture in your

mind. It's his King Josiah. He hears God's word spoken. And just hearing the words of God

he tears his clothes. This is a picture of of repentance of sorrow, deep sorrow,

over sin, because he knows the people of God have not been following this word. And so he is

broken over it. He literally breaks his clothes. He begins weeping. He's humbling himself

before God because of conviction in his heart brought about by the word of God confession

in his life and among the people of God brought about by the word of God. And we read later in

verse 19 of this chapter how God says because your heart was penitent and because you humbled

yourself before me when you heard my word you've torn your clothes and wept before me God says

I have heard you have heard your cries. God hears the cries of the humble and the repentant and

the broken and the convicted who hear his word with a soft heart and reply with humble submission

and confession and contrition. So God we pray that our hearts would be like Josiahs in this way.

God we pray that when we hear your word whether it's in a podcast episode like this whether it's when

we open our Bibles to read it and God help us to be faithful to do that. We know that's part of the

problem here in second Kings is that it had gone so long is they had gone so long without listening

to your words. So God help us to hear your words and listen to it and God when we see

areas of our lives that don't align with your word and in our families and our churches and

our country and the world around us God we pray you to give us soft hearts and bring us to our

knees maybe not specifically to tear our clothes as was the custom in that day but God for broken

hearts for contrition over sin God don't let us just casually read your word without conviction

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