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

1 Samuel chapter 17 verses 45 through 47, then David said to the Philistine,

You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin,

but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,

whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand,

and I will strike you down and cut off your head, and I will give the dead bodies of the host

of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, to the wild beasts of the earth,

that all the earth may know, that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know,

that the Lord saves not with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you

our hand. Thus David spoke before he struck down Goliath, and there is so much here in his words,

in the way he describes the sin of Goliath, daring to defy God.

Like David knew, that was the primary problem here. Goliath was defying the God of Israel,

and David would not stand for it. Oh, for that kind of zeal, for the glory of God in our lives,

that wherever, in any way we see God not being honored and glorified, that we rise up, we say,

we want to change that, we want to see God honored and glorified, isn't this what leads us to pray?

According to Jesus, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. That's what drives us to pray.

We want God's name to be hallowed, and notice where this leads David to act.

With trust in God to go to this giant Goliath, and to say, this battle for the glory of God is not

ultimately mine, it's ultimately God's, and he will glorify himself. This is Psalm 4610,

right? Be still and know that I am God, and I will be exalted among the nations. I will be

exalted in all the earth. Oh, there's so much here in First Samuel, chapter 17, and all over the

Bible. God will glorify himself among all the peoples of the earth. There is a battle going on,

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