The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Oh how we love your law. It is our meditation day and night. My heart's desire as I preach it now is that your people would be like trees

planted by streams of water that brings forth fruit in season and that their leaves

would not wither and that in everything they would do they would prosper and you

tell us so plainly this happens if we meditate on the law the Lord day and night.

Your word is sharper than a two-edged sword piercing through the division of soul and spirit,

bone and marrow, and revealing the secret things of the heart. And you tell us, and Jesus lived it, man shall not live by

bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Oh, how we love your word.

So come and help me to be faithful to it and would you grant that it would be

spoken in power and that great grace would be upon us all for hearing the word of God.

I ask this in Jesus' name,

Amen.

So here we are at the end of prayer week. This is a tradition, it's a great one.

At the front of prayer week we put a message on prayer, and at the back of prayer week today, we put a message on the word.

And there's a reason for that tradition.

Those two things, prayer and the word of God, are the two fundamental means of grace by which God enables his people to be conformed to the image of his son.

And the two means of grace of praying and meditating on the word of God are interdependent.

That's why we put them together in one week.

They are interdependent.

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