Pray the Word with David Platt - Pray with Faith (2 Kings 3:16–18)

0:00Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. 2 Kings chapter 3 verses 16 through 18. And he said, thus says the Lord, I will make this dry stream bed full of pools. For thus says the Lord, you shall not see wind or rain, but that stream bed shall be filled with water so that you shall drink you, your livestock and your animals. This is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will also give the mobs into your hand. I'll just pause there. Did you hear that phrase? Well, let me give the setup. So here in this passage, God is miraculously providing water for all these soldiers in the middle of a dry land. And not just for them, but for their livestock, their animals, and he's promising deliverance in the battle they're going into with the mobs. And right in the middle of it,

1:00did you hear that phrase in verse 18? The Bible says this is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. I forgot to miraculously provide water in a dry land. That's easy. That's a light thing. For God to provide deliverance in battle, that's a light thing to God. In other words, nothing is too heavy for God when it comes to providing for his people and accomplishing his purposes. Can I say that again? Nothing is too heavy for God when it comes to providing for his people and accomplishing his purposes. And this should lead us to pray with faith. When we pray, let's remember who we're praying to. It's a light thing for God to do miraculous things.

2:00So God, help us, we pray to pray with faith. I think about people right now who are asking for big things in their lives, their families, their churches in the world for hard things, for things that seem impossible. I think about praying just a few minutes ago with a couple of brothers in Christ. And we were just asking for you to do the supernatural to do that which seems impossible. God, help us teach us, lead us to pray. These kinds of prayers with faith, with trust in you, God, help us to realize who you are, the omnipotent God, who works miracles for whom miracles are light things. That which we think is heavy. Miraculous is a light thing

3:03to you who has authority over all things. So God, we ask right now and maybe just in your own heart, like what big things are you asking for? What are you asking God to do that seems impossible? Would you just ask for that specifically from him even as this podcast episode comes to a close, would you just ask specifically God, do this? God, we just want to lay these things before you right now. These things that are on our minds and our hearts that seem impossible right now. Salvation of family members. We've been praying for for a long time. God, we ask, do it. We pray, save them for friends. We've been praying for co-workers. We've been praying for God for your provision in this way or that way for this person or that person in our own lives. God, for your help and supernatural ways and our families and our churches. God, it when we pray on this podcast for unreached people, it does sure feels like asking for big things for the Soko Trin people of the

4:07UAE to come to know you when there's no followers of Jesus among the Soko Trin. God, we ask right now that you would show your power among the Soko Trin and you would draw them to yourself in the UAE and other countries where they live. God, we ask you for what seems like heavy things in our eyes, but we know our light things in your hands. And we praise you for the privilege of prayer by which we can come to you that God who has all power to do all things according to your perfect will. We ask for your supernatural provision and for the supernatural accomplishment of your purposes. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.