Acknowledging Our Need - Oct 10
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🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us this week, looking at the concept of acknowledging our need for God is essential. We will never taste the fullness of God’s sufficient grace until we learn to live low, acknowledging our need and weakness before the Lord. So many of us are fearful of appearing weak and work our fingers to the bone to feel sufficient within ourselves. The only path to true power and freedom comes through embracing our need and lack. May you experience that freedom and strength from God today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 73:26, and today's worship is Refresh Me by Leeland.
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| 0:00.0 | As we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us this week, looking at the concept of acknowledging our need for God is essential. We will never taste the fullness of |
| 0:15.2 | God's sufficient grace until we learn how to live low, acknowledge our need and weakness |
| 0:20.4 | before the Lord. So many of us are fearful of appearing weak and |
| 0:25.0 | working our fingers to the bone to feel sufficient within ourselves. The only path to |
| 0:30.3 | true power and freedom comes through embracing our need and lack. |
| 0:35.0 | May you experience that freedom and strength from God today. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the First of Team podcast. Our verse or today comes from Psalm 73 verse 26. |
| 0:59.3 | Scripture says, my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion |
| 1:06.8 | forever. The greatest place for our hearts to be is in constant acknowledgement of our need for God. |
| 1:17.0 | Our God never forces his help on us. |
| 1:20.0 | He never forces us to follow his perfect pleasing will. |
| 1:25.0 | And he never forces us into the encounters with him that we were created for. |
| 1:30.0 | But as seen as we acknowledge our need of him, his love comes rushing in, satisfying every |
| 1:36.9 | dry and weary place of our heart. In Luke 10 38 through 42, we find one of the most important lessons in all of Scripture. |
| 1:49.8 | The Bible says, now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. |
| 1:55.3 | And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. |
| 1:58.5 | And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was |
| 2:06.4 | distracted with much serving and she went up to him and said, |
| 2:10.5 | Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? |
| 2:16.5 | Tell her then to help me. |
| 2:18.6 | But the Lord answered her, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. |
| 2:27.3 | Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. |
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