Hi, it's David Platt. Have you signed up for Secret Church 25 yet? It's happening online, April 11th,

and I would love for you to join us. We're going to spend six hours together studying the book of

Matthew, discovering how to make our lives count for what matters most, and praying for our

persecuted family around the world. Prices go up after February 25th, so register today at radical.net

slash SC25. I'd love to see you there. Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from

Radical.net. Deuteronomy, chapter 6, verse 8. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets

between your eyes now i want you to think about this verse with me this is god talking to his people

about his word and he is saying basically you need to saturate your entire life with my word.

Talk about it all the time.

When you lie down, when you sit up, when you rise, when you walk, all the time.

And then you get to verse 8.

He says, you shall bind my words as a sign on your hand. Just picture something on your hand that

you look at all the time. They shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Like you can't escape

looking at God's words. That's the way God causes people to live. And I just want to encourage us to think about, okay, what does this

look like in our lives? Because I've shared this before. A couple of centuries ago, it would

have been common for an ordinary Christian, not a pastor or church leader, just everyday Christian,

to rise before dawn for extended time and private prayer, meditation on God's Word, to then be followed

by family prayer and meditation on God's Word in the morning, to then be followed by time set aside

in the middle of the day for personal or corporate, like with the church, prayer, meditation on God's

Word, to be followed by family prayer and meditation on God's Word in the evening before personal prayer and meditation on God's Word, to be followed by family prayer, meditation on God's Word in the evening, before personal prayer, meditation on God's Word,

before going to sleep. Like, that was once normal for a Christian, like collective hours

throughout the day in prayer, meditation on God's Word. But for us today, I think most of us can't

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