God Looks On The Heart (1 Samuel 16:7)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Samuel 16:7, David Platt points to the way God looks at our hearts rather than outward appearance. View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.9	1 Samuel chapter 16, verse 7.
0:08.6	But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature
0:14.1	because I have rejected him.
0:16.8	For the Lord sees not as man sees, man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
0:27.1	Oh, what an amazing line.
0:30.5	Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
0:36.7	God sees differently than we see, which means we need help
0:44.0	to see as God sees. Like we have a perspective that is totally different than God's. The whole picture here in 1 Samuel chapter 16 is Samuel thinking,
0:59.7	okay, the next king of Israel is going to look like this or that. And God says, you're missing
1:05.5	the whole point. I see the heart. And that's what matters most.
1:13.6	So, and as you think about that reality, it changes the way you view the world around you and every one in it, right?
1:24.6	This changes my parenting when I look at my kids.
1:30.8	And I think about the great title of that great book,
1:34.1	Shepherding a Child's Heart.
1:36.1	God, I want to see their heart.
1:39.2	As you see their heart and as shepherd their hearts well.
1:42.4	And then to see other family members friends
1:46.1	co-workers neighbors to see beyond the outward appearance to see their hearts to see the all
1:51.7	hearts of people and even in all of this to realize god sees my heart and i want a heart that is
1:57.5	pleasing and glorifying to him.
2:06.7	So, so many different directions we can pray based on 1st Samuel chapter 16, verse 7.
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