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

Luke chapter 19 verses 45 and 46 and he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold

saying to them, it is written, my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of

rovers. Wow, I'm pretty overwhelmed even just reading this verse on this day. It was a week ago

today when in our church family we saw God's invitation in Isaiah 55 for us to seek him,

call on him and cry out to him and we did in a way that none of us saw coming our 11 o'clock

gathering continued all the way until about close to four o'clock that afternoon. In a way I'd

never been a part of in a Sunday morning church gathering and then won't go into all the details

of how, but the next day God clearly prompted me and other leaders in our church to invite,

call our church to continue praying and seeking him that night for a gathering and didn't know

what would happen or who might show up and we thought we'll have 20 people show up, it'll be

awesome to see God together, but a lot more than 20 people showed up and it was awesome.

As we sought God and prayer and confession and repentance and worship and intercession and we did

the same the next night and the next night and the next and then so to come the next Sunday to

this verse in our church's Bible reading which is what this podcast follows. It's the

Robert Murray McShane Bible reading plan I highly recommend it, but Jesus entering the temple,

turning over tables, driving out those who are selling and buying there and saying,

my house is a house of prayer and well I don't think this word could be any clearer.

God, we want our churches, your church to be houses of prayer to be places where we go and we

genuinely seek you, call and cry out to you together where we don't just go through religious

motions and carry out religious activities unchanged where we come together and we seek you with all

our hearts and we're transformed by you and prayer according to your word God make our churches

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