Abiding in the Heartbeat of God
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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As we look at the different ways we are to abide in the true vine of God, today we’ll explore the concept of prayer. It is my hope today we walk away with simplified prayer lives. As you learn to seek out the heartbeat of God, may you grow in confidence in his love for you and those around you.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 15:7-8, and today's worship is Everything You Are by First15 Worship feat. John Marc Kohl.
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| 0:00.0 | As we look at the different ways we're to abide in the true vine of God. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we'll explore the concept of prayer. |
| 0:12.0 | It's my hope today that we walk away with simplified prayer lives. |
| 0:18.0 | And as you learn to seek out the heartbeat of God, may you grow in confidence in |
| 0:22.9 | his love for you and those around you. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 15, verse 7 through 8, where Jesus says, |
| 0:47.8 | If you abide in me, in my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. |
| 1:07.5 | Jesus makes an almost unbelievable promise in our verse for today. |
| 1:12.6 | He promises that if we abide in Him and allow His words to abide in us, |
| 1:18.6 | then we can ask anything we desire of God, and it will happen. |
| 1:24.6 | Clearly, this is a vital passage for us to understand today. I believe that the Lord has |
| 1:31.9 | fresh revelation in store for us. It will take him out his word and allow him to transform our |
| 1:38.5 | understanding of what it is to petition our Heavenly Father. So, let's open our hearts and minds and allow the Holy Spirit |
| 1:48.1 | to come and do a work in us today as we place our trust in Jesus' Word. I've spent a large |
| 1:57.1 | part of my Christian life praying without understanding how to pray. |
| 2:02.5 | I used to view prayer as a time for me to ask God for what I thought would be good, |
| 2:07.9 | and then wait to see if my circumstances lined up with my prayer. |
| 2:12.9 | Then only through my circumstances would I know if God's answer to my prayer was yes or no. And then I read |
| 2:20.6 | John 15, 7 through 8, where Jesus clearly teaches a very different model of prayer than I had been |
| 2:27.8 | experiencing. Jesus' model for prayer is abiding in his presence, abiding in his words, and then asking God |
| 2:38.2 | for our heart's desires. God desires that we would be so in tune with his heartbeat and so saturated |
| 2:46.9 | with His word that our desires would be transformed into His desires. |
| 2:53.1 | His plan is to fill us with the knowledge of His perfect will for our lives in the |
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