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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Proverbs 16:25, David Platt teaches us to be vigilant of the ways that seem right to us but lead us away from God.
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0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. |
0:06.0 | Proverbs chapter 16 verse 25 there is a way that seems right to a man |
0:11.0 | but its end is the way to death. I read that verse and I just think about the |
0:17.8 | tendency you and I that we all have to think we know what is right and to do what we think is best even |
0:29.4 | when that involves going against what God's word says is right or God's word says is best. |
0:38.2 | I mean this is the first sin in the world. |
0:41.9 | Adam and Eve thinking it was desirable, it was best for them to eat from this fruit, |
0:49.6 | only to realize that this choice would lead to death. |
0:53.9 | So I read Proverbs 1625, |
0:56.2 | and I just want to pray in my own life, |
0:58.6 | God keep me from ways that seem right to me, but that lead to death or lead me away from you and what's best for me. |
1:09.2 | And not just to pray that for my own life, but to pray that for the people around me to pray this for my |
1:14.4 | family. God keep my family from doing what seems right to them instead of what you say is right to pray this for the members of my |
1:28.2 | church and just to pray this for people around me and including praying for this for people who don't know Jesus |
1:36.2 | around me who are going at life according to lives and the lives of others around us. Proverbs 1625, God, we pray that you would save us today, |
1:58.0 | all day today, at every moment from anything that seems right to us but is not right according to you and |
2:10.0 | your word and your spirit God we pray that you would calibrate our hearts and our |
2:15.8 | minds around that which is right according to your word and your spirit and |
2:22.3 | save us from ways that seem right to us but that lead to death, that lead |
2:28.7 | us away from you. |
2:30.5 | God, please save us all day long from ourselves and from our sinful tendencies. |
2:38.2 | And God, we pray this not only over our lives, we pray this over the people in our lives, for our family members, for our friends, |
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