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

The important chapter is really in all the Old Testament because it represents the

Davidic covenant. God's commitment to David to bless David and his line, his

house and his kingdom, verse 16 says, shall be made sure forever before God. His

throne shall be established forever. Whenever we see that word in the Bible,

forever, we see it twice here in this one verse, I think it should really blow us

away. Like this is mind-boggling to consider how what we read in God's word is

not just about a particular time and a particular place. It's about all time

and all people throughout all time. For ever what God is doing here will last

forever. He's making a promise that would last forever and that means that

promise is still in place today and 10 billion years from now that promise will

still be in place. And the promise specifically here is for God's blessing on

the line and the kingdom that would come through David, which we know as we get

into the pages of the New Testament is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus who came

from the line of David who is King of kings and Lord of lords who is the

Savior and Lord and King of our lives and who will be Savior and Lord and King

forever. So when you read God's word and you see the word forever, just stop and

realize that what you're reading about has implications for your life and not

just for your life but for everyone's life for all of eternity. And so we

pray based on this picture in 2 Samuel chapter 7 verse 16. Oh God what a word

forever to think that thousands of years after these words were written after

you spoke these words to David that I am sitting here that all of us who are

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