Seek the Lord (2 Samuel 21:1)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Samuel 21:1, David Platt encourages us to seek the Lord in times of need. We hope you'll join us for Secret Church 25 on April 11. For six hours, we’ll dig deep into the book of Matthew and pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters. If you register by April 2 and live in the US, UK, or Canada, we’ll make sure your printed guided scripture journal gets to you in time for the event. Sign up today at radical.net/sc25 Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's David Platt. I am really looking forward to Secret Church 25 on April 11th, and I hope you'll
0:06.2	join us for six hours digging deep into the book of Matthew, praying for our persecuted
0:11.5	brothers and sisters. And if you register by April 2nd and live in the U.S., the UK, or Canada,
0:17.5	we'll make sure your printed scripture journal gets to you in time for
0:21.5	Secret Church. I really don't want you to miss this. Sign up today at radical.net slash
0:27.0	SC25. Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:35.6	2 Samuel chapter 21, verse 1. Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years
0:43.5	year after year and David sought the face of the Lord wow I want to lead us to pray according to
0:52.8	this verse because of the simple picture it represents.
0:58.7	And by saying simple, I don't mean to minimize the significance of three years of famine, year after year, even the way the Bible emphasizes this makes clear this was a significant, horrible time. But that's the
1:14.6	point. There was great need among God's people. So what did David do? He sought the face of the
1:23.2	Lord. So when we face great needs, great challenges, obstacles, trials in our lives, may this be what we do.
1:35.4	We seek the face of the Lord instead of immediately first and foremost thinking, how do we fix this?
1:40.7	How do we solve this? Yes, we trust God will help us to think through those things,
1:45.8	but we need to first and foremost seek the face of God. Is that the way your mind works,
1:53.0	your heart, your life works when you face challenges is your first impulse. Let me seek the face
1:59.7	of the Lord. Let me get alone with God
2:01.8	and just seek his face. When you are walking through trials and something happens, you hear news,
2:08.2	or you face a circumstance, an obstacle, just a hardship in any way is your first impulse. I need to
2:16.1	get alone with God and just seek his face. That's what
2:18.9	David did. And I want to encourage us to do this in our lives. In our lives, like four things
2:26.7	we are facing, and to do the same thing for others. Whenever we hear about needs in other's lives,
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