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Pray the Word with David Platt - Guard Your Heart (2 Chronicles 12:14) · TAKEN TV Podcasts

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  SPEAKER_00: Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second Chronicles chapter twelve, verse fourteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me read that one more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just let it soak in.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is talking about King Rhoboam.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't set your heart to seek the Lord, then you will do evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you set your heart to seek the Lord, you will do good.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is such a simple, powerful verse that shouts to you and me, set your heart to seek the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obedience and the good life, according to God's good design, doesn't happen accidentally.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happens when you set your heart to seek God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to encourage you to intentionally do that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Set your heart to seek God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just think about what that means and what that looks like practically.
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  SPEAKER_00: To set your heart to seek God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly that means to set your heart on God's Word, to fix your heart on God's word, to spend time with Him in prayer, like concentrated time in ways that lead to continual time in prayer, seeking God all day long.
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  SPEAKER_00: Set your heart to seek God and everything you need for everything you need in every moment you need help, which is all day long.
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  SPEAKER_00: Set your heart to seek the Lord today, and it will lead to good.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't set your heart to seek the Lord, then it will lead to evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will lead to that which is not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, God, we pray in this moment, we want to set our hearts to seek you, to seek you with all our hearts, as we read about in David's charge to Solomon, to seek you with a whole heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we read in 1 Chronicles 16, to seek you and your strength, to seek you and the joy that comes from you, to seek your presence continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we pray, Jeremiah 29, 13, that we would seek you with all our hearts and we would find you and experience you and walk with you and see you and know you and understand you and glorify you, that we would experience in all of this the good life you have for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we pray that you would help us to avoid evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil as our hearts are set on seeking you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we pray that you would help us to bring others along with us to seek you with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: You would help us to encourage other brothers and sisters in Christ in seeking after you today and experiencing the good life in you and leading others who don't know you to seek you and find you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God, we pray this for peoples of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray for the hot car people of India for 400,000 Marathi-speaking Hindu men, women, and children.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, we pray, no known followers of Jesus among them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray, God, that among the hot car people that seekers of you would spread the good news of who you are to them, and that they might seek you and find you and experience your salvation, and experience the good life you have for them forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray that over the hot car people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please cause the gospel to spread to them that they might seek you and experience your salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray all this according to your word, which we love.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2 Chronicles chapter 12, verse 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: Set our hearts to seek you, we pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.