Trusting The Lord In Our Struggles (Habakkuk 1:2)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Habakkuk 1:2, David Platt leads us to express our struggles to God in humility and faith.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platte is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 2, O Lord, how long shall I cry for help and you will not hear or cry to
0:12.9	you violence and you will not save. This is just one part of the first chapter in Habakkuk, which
0:20.5	encapsulates so many of the questions that we are all familiar with in relationship to our God.
0:29.6	Basically, you read through Habakkuk 1 and Habakkuk is asking God, do you hear me when I'm
0:35.7	crying out to you? Do you care? Are you good? Are you holy? Where is your power? Where is your
0:43.3	word? Where is your justice? And in all of this, the honest wrestling of faith, God, are you worthy
0:50.8	of my trust? These are questions that most anyone who has walked through painful experiences
0:57.9	has wondered and maybe even said aloud to God. In Habakkuk, the book is a reminder to us that
1:06.2	these questions are real in a fallen world and that there is a good and right way to ask them.
1:13.8	That's the whole picture here in Habakkuk of looking to God in faith and honestly saying,
1:19.2	I'm struggling with this. I don't understand this and yet in the end realizing that God is
1:26.7	all wise and all powerful and holy and good and loving in ways that we don't understand in ways
1:35.5	that he is working and he is working in ways that we don't understand and it's okay to pray before
1:43.6	God and to say exactly that what we see happening here in Habakkuk, God, why is this happening? How
1:51.5	long will this continue? And as we read through Habakkuk, we see where that can lead. When we ask
1:58.3	those questions in honest faith and humility before God, how those questions can lead to deeper faith
2:05.3	and deeper understanding of who God is and deeper trust in God's Word and God's ways and God's
2:12.0	character. So God, we pray for that. We want that in each of our lives. We want to know you more.
2:18.2	We want to trust you with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding. We want to love
2:24.4	you with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. So God, we ask these questions that are
2:32.1	honestly from our hearts and the humbly before you. God, we don't understand why certain things
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