New Mercies Every Morning (Lamentations 3:22–26)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Lamentations 3:22–26, David Platt reminds us that God’s mercies meet us at every moment. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:06.7	Lamentations chapter 3, verses 22 through 26.
0:11.1	The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
0:15.6	His mercies never come to an end.
0:19.1	They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my
0:27.1	portion, says my soul. Therefore I will hope in him. The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
0:36.2	to the soul who seeks Him.
0:39.4	It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
0:46.7	We could obviously pray, not just according to each one of these verses individually, but
0:52.4	phrases in these verses individually.
0:55.3	But the reason I wanted to read them all together is because the first few verses that I read
1:00.6	are most well-known on limitations.
1:02.3	They're the heart of the book in the middle of this book of lament of crying out to God.
1:08.1	The writer says, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end.
1:15.3	They're new every morning. This promise that every single morning, when you wake up, there are new
1:22.9	mercies of God waiting for you, which is why I wanted to read all the way to verses 25 and 26,
1:30.3	because those verses say the Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
1:36.6	It's good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
1:41.4	Waiting is not a strong suit of mine. I'm guessing it's probably not a strong
1:46.1	suit of yours. We all need help to be patient to wait. And I just think about different circumstances
1:54.4	in my own life, I'm sure in your life where you would love some resolution right now. You would love for answers. You would love for
2:04.1	an end to suffering or heartache or just challenges you're facing. And in these verses, God is saying
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