Love God Above All (Matthew 22:35–40)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Matthew 22:35–40, David Platt encourages us to love God wholeheartedly.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.0 | Matthew 22 verses 35 through 40. And one of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question to test him, |
| 0:11.3 | teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? And he said to him, |
| 0:15.5 | you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. |
| 0:20.7 | This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor |
| 0:26.0 | as yourself on these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. We need to pray |
| 0:34.6 | continually these verses over our lives to pray for these verses and others lives. |
| 0:42.5 | Jesus telling us what is most important in your life and my life today. What is most important, |
| 0:49.6 | more important than anything else is for you and me to love God with all our heart, |
| 0:58.2 | not some of our heart, but all our heart, all of our soul, with all of our mind. This is the great |
| 1:06.3 | and first commandment, but this is the commandment from which everything else flows, including the |
| 1:12.5 | second commandment. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Like I pray this over my life, |
| 1:19.9 | over my wife and kids, over I think about their future spouses when I pray for potential future |
| 1:29.7 | spouses for them. This is the two things I pray for any potential future spouse of my kids that |
| 1:35.2 | they would love God wholeheartedly and love others selflessly. Like if that's true in their lives, |
| 1:41.7 | then that will be good for my kids. Even as I pray that for my kids knowing that will be good |
| 1:47.8 | for a spouse. Like this is what we pray for most in our lives, in others lives that we and others |
| 1:57.6 | would love God wholeheartedly and love others selflessly. Don't you want those two things to be |
| 2:06.8 | true in your life? So let's pray in a fresh way for that today. God, we pray that our lives |
| 2:14.4 | would be marked by these two commandments. We want to love you with all our heart, with all our |
| 2:20.4 | soul, with all of our minds. God, help us teach us to love you in this way. Ween us off all lesser |
| 2:29.7 | loves and help us to love you supremely wholeheartedly more than anyone anything else in this world, |
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