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

Principle if you want to live you must die. Jesus makes that very clear.

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone.

But if it dies, it bears much fruit. The key to bearing fruit, the key to

experiencing John 10, 10 abundant life is dying in specific ways and dying to

ourselves and our ways and our preferences, what we want being crucified with

Christ. That's Galatians 220. It's the summary of the Christian life. I'm

been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. It's Christ who lives in me. I've

died to myself. The life I live now in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of

God who loved me and gave himself for me. We must die to sell. If we're going to

live, this is daily. But anyone would follow after me. Jesus says, let him take

up his cross daily, die to himself, die to sin. We want to die to sin and sinful

desires and thoughts and words and actions to every trace of sin in us. We

want to die to it, to die to self, to die to sin and to die to the ways of this

world. Verse 25 in John 12, whoever loves his life loses it and whoever hates

his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Obviously, that's not

saying to stop looking at your life, even in this world as fearfully and

wonderfully made in the image of God and valued and treasured by God. But it

is to die to the ways of this world, to the way this world defines success, to

the way this world defines pleasure, to the way this world defines who you are

and what you should be doing with your life. Die to those things and live

according to the way the word of God defines your life and the way God's word

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