An Open Heart
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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In the middle of our week looking at how God is after our hearts, in today’s devotional we’re going to focus on what it means to live with an open heart. Every day, every moment is an opportunity to live with an open heart, or to live with walls up around our hearts. And God’s pursuit of us, his steadfast love, affords us a pathway to open ourselves with confidence and security. May he fills us with courage and grace today as we experience his nearness together.
Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 4:23, and today's worship is Open Space by Housefires.
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| 0:00.0 | In the middle of our week, looking at how God is after our hearts, |
| 0:09.0 | in today's devotional, we're going to focus on what it means to live with an open heart. |
| 0:14.0 | Every day, every moment is an opportunity to live with an open heart |
| 0:20.0 | or to live with walls up around our hearts. |
| 0:22.6 | And God's pursuit of us, his steadfast love, |
| 0:26.6 | affords us a pathway to open ourselves with confidence and security. |
| 0:32.6 | May he fill us with courage and grace today |
| 0:36.6 | as we experience his nearness together. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | Our verse for today comes from Proverbs 4, verse 23, where Scripture says, keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flows the springs of life. |
| 1:10.0 | In order to experience all For from it flows the springs of life. |
| 1:18.6 | In order to experience all the fullness of life God has in store for us, we must live with an open heart. |
| 1:21.6 | Oftentimes, whether it be from wounds or simply bad teaching, |
| 1:26.6 | we live closed off and self-focused. |
| 1:31.8 | We go throughout our days with walls up around our hearts and rarely allow ourselves to receive the reality of God's nearness moment to moment. |
| 1:42.4 | But God is calling us deeper. He's calling us to a lifestyle of encountering him. |
| 1:49.5 | He's calling us to tear down the walls we've built up and trust that living openly and |
| 1:55.9 | receptively will bear life, peace, and joy. |
| 2:03.7 | John 154 says, |
| 2:06.1 | Abide in me and I in you. |
| 2:09.5 | As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, |
| 2:12.0 | neither can you unless you abide in me. |
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