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

Rad and prayed according to an Ezra chapter 9, so that scene in Ezra 9 was Ezra falling

before the Lord on his face, just weeping over sin and conviction of sin in his life and

the people of God around him.

But then to read Ezra chapter 10, verse 1, and to see that while Ezra did this, while

Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of

God a very great assembly.

So not just a few people, but a lot of people of men, women and children, so all these

other people join in this weeping and casting themselves down before the house of God

praying and making confession and such for the people wept bitterly.

I read this, I'm just provoked to lead us to pray for these realities in our own lives,

like Ezra chapter 9, verse 4 and 5 and 6 showed us, and then for this reality of confession

and contrition and humility, and broken this over sin to spread in our families and in

our churches among more and more people, that not just individual ones alone with God

might be broken over sin, but that we as the people of God will be broken over sin,

you look in the history of God's people, biblically, and since biblical times, just times

of revival and spiritual awakening in the church have come when God's spirit has brought

about this kind of conviction, not just among a few people here or there, but across God's

people.

So can we just pray for that together?

God, we pray Ezra 10-1, not just over our lives, but over your church and our churches,

our local churches that we're a part of, God, we pray for a spirit of confession and broken

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