You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

We're going to continue kind of the trend that we've had during this last few weeks as we're talking about

prayer.

I'm studying the word, the top of our time together this morning and letting that

involve us into time and prayer as a faith family.

Before we get started, let me encourage you to pull out those notes that were in your

celebration guide that you received when you came in.

They'll guide our time together this morning.

Before we start, I want to just tell you a little bit about my week,

if that's all right.

If it's not all right, I'm going to tell you anyway.

But I've spent all of this last week in Oklahoma,

and it's really been kind of a microcosm in a sense of my whole summer.

I, this whole summer I've spent most of my weeks out of town, preaching in camps or

conferences in different places, all, all commitments that I'd made before I came to

pastor here at Brook Hills, and so filling out those commitments, and so this Monday morning,

early 6 o'clock, Monday morning,

flew out to Oklahoma, and if I could be completely honest

with you, really didn't want to be in Central Oklahoma all week.

Just the time away from family from Heather from Caleb. I called her at one point this week and I called her right in the middle of she was cooking dinner for Caleb as well as her niece and nephew they were there and she said I'm really

busy this is not a good time I said I don't care I just want to talk to my son please

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