What is the Good Life? (Ezra 7:10)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Ezra 7:10, David Platt answers the question, "what is the good life?" He reminds us that the good life is found in studying and meditating on God's Word.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:30.0	Good hand of his God was on him for Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord.
0:36.6	This is a picture of the good hand of God on someone's life.
0:43.1	Like, don't you want that in your life?
0:46.1	Don't you want it to be true of you that the good hand of God is on your life all over your life?
0:54.8	I want that in my life.
0:56.0	I want that in my family.
0:57.2	I want that in the church.
0:58.9	I want that in everything I do, everything around me, every one around me.
1:05.4	The good hand of God will listen to verse 10 for Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord
1:15.5	and to do it and to teach it.
1:19.0	Like, this is exactly what the Bible teaches over and over again.
1:22.2	I think about Psalm chapter 1.
1:23.8	Plast is the man, the woman who walks, not in the council.
1:27.7	Wicked nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scholars,
1:30.6	but his or her delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law.
1:36.7	We meditate day and night.
1:38.7	Like, this is the blessed life, the happy life, the good life is found in setting our hearts
1:47.0	to study, to meditate on the law of the Lord.
1:52.9	And not just to read it, study it and memorize it, meditate on it, but to do it,
2:00.2	and to tell it to others.
2:02.8	Like, this is what we see all over the Bible.
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