In Awe of God (Ecclesiastes 5:1–3)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 5:1–3, David Platt challenges us to pray and live with evident awe of and reverence for God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners this is the last week to register for secret church 24 on Friday April 19th |
| 0:05.6 | Together we're gonna walk verse by verse of the story of redemption in the book of Ruth |
| 0:10.8 | Pray for the persecuted church in North Korea. You can register today by visiting |
| 0:15.8 | Radical.net. |
| 0:20.0 | Ruth. Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Madical. |
| 0:22.1 | Net. Kleeze. with David Platt is a resource from Madical.net. |
| 0:25.0 | Ecclesiasties chapter 5 verses 1 through 3. |
| 0:28.0 | Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. |
| 0:31.5 | To draw near to listen is better than to offer the |
| 0:34.9 | sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil. |
| 0:39.2 | Do not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven |
| 0:47.2 | and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business and a fool's voice with many words. |
| 0:58.0 | Wow what a sobering call from Ecclesiasties chapter 5 to you and me when we come before God to not be |
| 1:09.8 | hasty with our words but to be intentional, first to listen to God and then to speak in ways that honor |
| 1:22.4 | who God is, in ways that reflect a proper fear of and reverence for God. When we come before God |
| 1:31.8 | in When we come before God in prayer, we're not talking to him like we just talk to anyone else, |
| 1:36.5 | because God is unlike anyone else. |
| 1:40.8 | This is why I find myself many times saying to our family before we pray before a meal, |
| 1:47.0 | okay let's pause for a moment and think about who we're praying to instead of just jumping into what can be if we're not |
| 1:57.6 | careful just wrote words and I want to be careful here because we think about New Testament |
| 2:06.6 | Exortation, command to pray continually. I think about a brother and Robert Anderson who had a profound influence in my life |
| 2:16.4 | and one of the ways he influenced me is just teaching me to pray continually. |
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