Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

I think about Psalm 119, 162. It says, I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God.

That's why I wrote this book to help you toward that end.

So I encourage you to pick it up wherever books are sold.

Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Micah chapter 4, verse 5.

For all the peoples walk each in the name of its God.

But we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

That is a powerful verse. It's a powerful picture. Just think about it.

The beginning of verse 5 saying all the people's walk each in the name of its God. Now in Micah's

day, this was all kinds of foreign gods that were being worshipped, and all of that

worship affected the way people lived on a daily basis. And you bring that picture into our world

today. So people may not be worshipping, like, idols that they've crafted around them, but think

about the gods that are being worshipped and the culture certainly where I live, gods of money,

that affect the way people live running after money, more money, nicer things, better things, newer things, because we think things

will satisfy us.

Or worshiping success, running after this achievement, that accolade, looking this way,

getting this position, being perceived by this people

in that manner.

We're running after success, people's applause, and it affects the way we live.

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