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

This picture of the Ark of the Covenant being housed by the Philistines, and when they wake up in the morning and they go into the place where they have left the Ark of the Covenant,

there is this false God among the Philistines Degon, who is face downward on the ground before the Ark of the Lord, and the head of Degon is cut off.

And his hands are cut off, only his trunk is left.

What a picture of the truth, the reality that there is no God, little G, God like capital G, God.

All the gods of the nations are idols, and one God reigns over them all.

And one day, all the idols of this world and every single person in this world will bow down to God.

You know, sometimes people say, I've decided to make Jesus Lord when the reality is we don't really have a choice in the matter.

Jesus is Lord. He is God, period, capital G, God, capital L, Lord, and one day every knee will bow before him and confess this reality.

The question is, will we confess him as Lord now, or will we confess him as Lord when it's too late?

First Samuel, chapter 5, verse 4, is a reminder to us all, in a way that leads us to pray to the one God who reigns over all.

So let's pray, Lord, there is none like you.

You alone are God, and we worship you. All the gods of the nations are idols.

They are deaf and mute. They have no power.

So God, we pray that you would keep us from all idolatry.

Keep us from worshipping any one or anything apart from you, from giving our affections or our devotion for putting our trust in anyone or anything apart from you.

You alone are worthy of all of our affections. We want to love you with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength.

You alone are worthy of our devotion. You alone are worthy of our trust. We don't trust in anyone, anything in this world.

Lord, from trust in you, you are ultimate trust. You are God. You are supreme. We worship you alone. We surrender our lives to you alone.

Help us to live with loving, radical, risk-taking, death-defying obedience, all out obedience to you alone, for you alone are God.

And use our lives to make your supremacy known in the world.

Help us to spread the good news about who you are and what you have done to people around us and peoples around the world.

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