David Platt, teaching pastor at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia, who will soon turn 40, said he has three points of advice he’d give to his 20-year-old self, if he could.
“Three words come to mind: surrender, abide and rest,” responds Platt in the latest episode of the Ask Pastor John podcasts on Desiring God.
Talking about the need for a young person to surrender, Platt continues: “Lay your life before the Lord every day. Deny yourself. Cry out, ‘Lord save me from myself, save me from my dreams, my plans. Make me want to do whatever you want me to do. Help me to want to go wherever you want me to go.'”
Abiding in Him, in His Word and in prayer is “the key,” Platt adds. “I’ve not regretted any time in the last 20 years — or 40 years, for that matter — that I spent in the Word, praying, fasting, and walking in obedience to His commands.”
Platt, author of the New York Times best-seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, says he doesn’t know what the coming years with the Lord…
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