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Pray the Word with David Platt

The Power of Wisdom (Ecclesiastes 9:18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 9:18, David Platt reminds us to pray for wisdom amidst ever-present spiritual warfare in our lives.

Transcript

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Madical.

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Net.

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Ecclesiasties chapter 9 verse 18

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wisdom is better than weapons of war

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but one center destroys much good.

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Now just think about these two phrases and how they lead us to pray.

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The first phrase, wisdom is better than weapons of war and obviously there's

0:25.9

physical pictures of war but I would point us to the biblical reality that all of us live in spiritual warfare all the time.

0:38.0

There is an adversary right now who wants to destroy you, your relationship with God wants to deceive you,

0:49.0

wants to distract you, wants to lead to your destruction. That's happening right now. There are

0:57.3

spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms who are at war with your soul.

1:04.0

So how do you fight that war?

1:07.0

Well, Ephesion 6 lists out a whole list of things we have in the armor of God.

1:12.0

Ecclesiasties 918 is telling us. list of things we have in the armor of God.

1:12.6

Ecclesiasties 918 is telling us.

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God is telling you and me right now.

1:17.4

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

1:21.3

We need wisdom, so we need to pray for wisdom in our lives

1:26.8

amidst the warfare that's happening around us that God would help us to walk

1:31.7

wisely with him.

1:33.6

There's a reason why Solomon, when God said

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I'll give you anything as King,

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