Abiding Fruit
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Did you know God has plans for your life specifically? He has dreams for you and vision for you. Things in store that would make your heart swell and soar. What does it look like to live a life that brings God glory? How does abiding in Christ bear fruit in our lives? As we explore these concepts and more, may our hearts be open to God’s word and all he has to say.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 15:16, and today's worship is Abide by Luke + Anna Hellebronth.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that God has plans for your life specifically? |
| 0:08.0 | He has dreams for you and visions for you, things envisioned that would make your heart swell and sore. |
| 0:15.0 | What does it look like to live a life that brings God glory? |
| 0:20.0 | How does abiding in Christ bear fruit in our lives? |
| 0:24.0 | As we explore these concepts and more, may our hearts be open to God's word and all that he has to say. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:59.2 | Our verse for today comes from John 15, verse 16, where Jesus says, You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide. |
| 1:08.1 | You have been chosen and appointed to bear eternal and impactful fruit. |
| 1:14.1 | God created all of us with a longing to make an important and lasting impact, |
| 1:19.9 | with the intention of satisfying that longing in him. |
| 1:24.4 | He has a plan for your life that doesn't belong to anyone else. |
| 1:29.3 | You alone can accomplish the works said before you, and you won't find true satisfaction until you do. |
| 1:38.3 | Your Heavenly Father has placed desires in you, which he has plans to satisfy in magnificent and joyful ways. |
| 1:47.0 | He knows for what purposes you were created and longs to lead you into a lifestyle of good works |
| 1:55.0 | that will fill you with all the abundance of life available to you through Christ. |
| 2:01.6 | Ephesians 210 says, |
| 2:03.6 | We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, |
| 2:08.6 | which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. |
| 2:13.6 | You were created to live a lifestyle of good works. |
| 2:18.3 | It's not outside of your nature to accomplish amazing things, no matter how you've lived your life up to this point. |
| 2:26.3 | God takes what the world has deemed broken and useless and transforms it into the very likeness of his son, Jesus. |
| 2:35.0 | He has plans to transform you into his disciple, |
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