Word: Teach Us To Pray

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Psalms is the divinely inspired prayer book, but when you open this prayer book, the first page is not a prayer. It’s a meditation on meditation. Meditation is not the same as studying the Bible. In studying the Bible you’re just learning information. Meditation takes what you’ve learned and does something with it. And according to the Psalms, meditation is actually the key to prayer. Psalm 1 tells us 1) the priority, 2) the promise, 3) the products, 4) the practice, and 5) the problem and solution of meditation. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 23, 2014. Series: The Prayer of Prayers. Scripture: Psalm 1:1-6; 2:1-12. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel and Life. What we love shapes who we are. So if we want to change, we have to start
0:10.4	by changing what we love, what we're passionate about, what delights us. One of the primary ways we can
0:16.6	rearrange the things we love most comes through consistent and faithful prayer.
0:21.6	Join us today as Dr. Keller looks at how authentic prayer connects us with God and reshapes what we love.
0:35.0	Tonight's scripture comes from the first Psalm, verses 1 through 6.
0:41.2	Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners
0:46.4	take, or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who
0:52.8	meditates on his law day and night.
0:56.7	That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season,
1:02.2	and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever they do, prospers. Not so, the wicked. They are like
1:10.2	chaff that the wind blows away therefore the wicked will not stand in the
1:15.1	judgment nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous for the lord watches over the way of the righteous
1:21.7	but the way of the wicked leads to destruction this is the word of the Lord.
1:34.6	So all fall, we've been looking at the subject of prayer.
1:38.0	And up to now, we've each day, each week,
1:40.0	looked at a part of the Lord's prayer.
1:41.9	But we're going to do one more week and learn one more thing about prayer very important but we're
1:45.0	not looking at the lord's prayer there's a sense in which if i somehow you ask what does the bible
1:54.5	give us what is the main information the bible gives us about the nature of prayer i would say
2:00.2	it gives you basically two resources it gives you the lord's us about the nature of prayer, I would say it gives you basically two
2:01.8	resources. It gives you the Lord's Prayer in the New Testament. And the Old Testament, it gives you
2:06.2	the book of Psalms. Those are the two basic answers of the Bible to the question, how do you
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