Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.

I want to lead us to pray exactly this over each of our lives.

Think about what God just called Solomon to, to integrity of heart.

Don't you want integrity of heart in your life? What a phrase that there would be a holiness

and wholeness to your heart before God. That's the phrase in the very beginning of

1 Kings 9.4. If you will walk before me with integrity of heart and uprightness,

with uprightness, with righteousness, before God, doing according to all that He has commanded.

Don't you want that to be true of your life? I want to do all that God commands me to do.

And keeping my statutes and my rules, God says, and then He promises him, when you do these things,

I will establish a royal throne. That was the promise to Solomon.

And we see all throughout God's word, His promises that we will experience, His blessing.

We will experience abundant life, not everything going perfect for us in life.

Let's not have an unrealistic, unbiblical even perspective of blessing.

Jesus was blessed, abundant life, walking with the Father, and He was crucified.

We have many persecuted brothers and sisters around the world who are walking obedience to God,

and they are being imprisoned or slandered in different ways. And so, yes, there will be

challenges in this world, but there is a life, and a peace, and a joy, and a depth of abundance,

and fulfillment that is found when we walk before God, with integrity of heart,

uprightness. And we do, according to all that He has commanded us, and we keep His statutes

and His rules. So, God, we pray together that it would be so in our lives. Man, be so today.

God, we pray that you would help us to walk before you.

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