As followers of Christ, we know we're supposed to pray when the church gathers,

but it's all too easy for prayer to become a thoughtless routine in which we don't even stop

to think about who we're praying to. We rarely have a sense of desperation for God's help.

We lack zeal for his beauty, our confession, if there is any, often misses the seriousness of our

sin, and our prayer and praise tend to be lukewarm, if we're honest. In this message,

David Platt uses Psalm 27 verse 4 and other passages to point us to the kind of prayer

that ought to characterize God's people. The church should come to God humbly,

expectantly, and zealously, calling out for his grace and strength as we seek to enjoy and

proclaim his glory. This is the Radical with David Platt podcast. Here is David with a message

titled, You Need Biblical Prayer. Well, that's it for today's episode. I'm your host,

Stacey Martin. For additional articles, podcasts, events, and more, visit Radical.net or follow us

on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a Bible, and I hope you or somebody around you does that

you can look on, let me invite you to open with me to Psalm chapter 27. So for to use table

contents, if you need to, it's right in the middle of the Bible, just kind of open up. It'll be around

Psalms and chapter 27. And as you're turning there, I want to welcome those of you in Loudon and

Montgomery County and Arlington and Prince William and others online. It's good to gather together

in all these places before God and to hear from His Word. And today I want to do something

pretty different. So we're in week three of 12 weeks on why you need a biblical church. Why you,

right? Where you are sitting right now no matter how young or old you are, no matter what age or

stage you are in life, no matter what your background is or what your present or future looks like.

But you need a biblical church, a specific kind of community that God has designed for you to

experience life to the full. So two weeks ago we saw that you and I need biblical preaching and

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