Pray the word with David Platt as a resource for Radical.net.

Malachi, chapter 2, verse 16, so guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless.

I want a simple verse potent command that just very simply leads us to pray. They think about it.

God's saying to His people, guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless. Do you realize what

this is very clearly implying that if we don't guard ourselves, we will grow faithless.

Maybe just turn that around to be faithful requires guarding yourself in your spirit.

Faithfulness doesn't just come naturally. It comes through supernatural, God empowered effort

to guard ourselves, to guard our hearts, to guard our minds so that we might be faithful,

full of faith, you know, obedient. Oh, isn't this what we long to hear in our lives at the end

to stand before Jesus and hear Him say, well done, good and faithful servant? This is my constant

prayer. I would encourage you and make this your constant prayer. I miss whatever you're walking

through, it's whatever circumstances you find yourself in right now, whatever God has entrusted to

you that which is great or easy, wonderful and that which is hard, not easy, doesn't feel great

to pray in the middle of both. God helped me to be faithful, coming to be full of faith in you

to trust in you when things are going great and to trust in you, to have faith in you when things

are not going great and to obey you when things are going great and when things are not going great

and especially if things are not going great, if things are hard right now in your life,

all the more so, Malachi 216, guard yourself in your spirit like the adversary loves to use difficult

days to rob us of faith, to strip faith away from us to destroy our faith. So don't let it happen,

don't let it happen. Hold fast to faith in God, be full of faith and just pray that over you right

now, hand me, God help us to do Malachi 216, to guard ourselves in our spirit and to not be

faithless. God, we say before you right now, we want to be faithful, we want to hold fast to faith

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