Steadfast Faith in a Hostile Culture (Daniel 1:8–9)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.9 | Not just the culture around him, but what he was being commanded to do, as he served in the |
| 0:37.0 | King's court, that he resolved that he would not defile himself. What a picture. Are you |
| 0:44.2 | resolved like this today? You will not defy yourself in this world in ways that are culture, |
| 0:52.5 | backends, and in some senses commands us to do to say, no, we are resolved that we will be |
| 1:02.4 | holy, that we will go totally against the grain of the culture, the world around us, and we will |
| 1:10.4 | be holy in what we say and what we think and what we desire and what we decide and how we |
| 1:18.4 | live and how we work. There are opportunities all day long for you and me to defile ourselves |
| 1:25.6 | with not necessarily the King's food, but with all sorts of things in this world. |
| 1:30.8 | So God, give us grace, strength, boldness, humility, trust in you to follow your word today, |
| 1:40.0 | to not defile ourselves with the temptations of this world, with the trends in this world, |
| 1:47.1 | with the way this world would have us think. God, don't let us be conformed to this world. We |
| 1:52.4 | don't want to be conformed to this world. We want to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. |
| 1:57.8 | We want to live in light of your word. We want to be pure. We want to be holy in everything we |
| 2:02.8 | think and say and desire and do. We want to die to ourselves today. We want to take up our cross |
| 2:10.3 | to live crucified with you to live by faith in you. God, help us to resist all the temptations |
| 2:17.0 | worldliness in our lives today. And we pray for the kind of favor and compassion that you gave |
| 2:24.6 | Daniel and Daniel, chapter one in our lives. God, that you would help us to be holy, that you |
| 2:30.6 | would help us to be pure and in the process, just like you helped Daniel and the chief of the |
| 2:38.6 | Unix saw him and realized that he was different and that the way he was living and eating in this |
| 2:46.5 | circumstance was better. God, we pray that over our lives. We pray for Matthew 5, 16 to be the |
| 2:52.4 | fruit of our lives that we would let your light, the light of your word and your spirit in us shine |
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