B.I.O. - Practice #1: Come Before God Daily, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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Summary
If you could see a chart of how you spend your time, what would you notice? In this program, Chip challenges us to take a closer look at our priorities by revealing the one relationship worth investing in above all others–and how it can have a dramatic, life-changing impact. Tune in to discover why making God the center of our attention matters more than we might realize.
Main Points Practice # 1 – To come before God daily.I. The Good News: Jesus’ life & teaching answer this question definitively
II. The Bad News: Most Christians don’t share much family resemblance
- The Principle: We become most like those with whom we spend the most time – 1 John 3:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Proverbs 13:20
- Knowing & pleasing His Father was Jesus' priority - John 4:34; 5:19, 30
- He memorized & meditated on God's Word - Matthew 4:4
- He went away to pray - Mark 1:35...
- Responding to God's Word defines our relationship with Him - Mark 4
- Our view of God in prayer definites our intimacy & answers - Luke 11:1-11
- Our obedience to God's Word brings us to experience His love & presence - John 14:21
- Abiding in Christ produces joy - John 15:1-11
- Make a daily appointment with Jesus
- It’s a habit to develop = Duty > Discipline > Delight
- Practice Solomon’s Advice – Proverbs 2:1-5
- Meditate on one truth or verse throughout the day
- Limit technology & distractions
- Proactively take in creation & art that bring awareness to worshipping God.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | It has often been said that we become like those we spend the most time with. |
| 0:06.0 | So if you were to look at a chart of how you invest your time, what people you spend the most |
| 0:12.0 | time with, what people influence you the most, who would they be? |
| 0:16.0 | Well today, I want to help you learn how to spend time with the most important person in the universe, |
| 0:21.6 | and how by rubbing up next to him, you'll actually become more and more like him. |
| 0:27.6 | Stay with me. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:34.6 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians |
| 0:38.4 | through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for being with us as we continue our newest |
| 0:42.9 | series, Bio, three essential practices to becoming more like Jesus. Today, Chip will dive into the |
| 0:49.4 | first practice that Jesus modeled for us, so to help you get the most out of this program, |
| 0:54.9 | let me encourage you to download Chip's message notes. They contain his outline, scripture references, and much more. |
| 1:01.1 | Get them by going to the broadcasts tab at Living on the Edge.org. At listeners tab, fill in notes. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, with that, here's Chip with his talk. Practice number one, come before God daily. |
| 1:14.6 | Someone has accurately observed that, |
| 1:17.1 | show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. |
| 1:20.7 | The fact the matter is, is that we become like the people |
| 1:23.7 | that we admire. |
| 1:24.8 | We become like the people that we want acceptance from, and we become |
| 1:29.0 | like the people we hang out with the most. I mean, we pick up their mannerisms, we pick up their |
| 1:34.2 | accents, we pick up their values. And that's why this practice, coming before God, is so absolutely |
| 1:41.2 | important, because the more time we spend with God, the more we actually experience |
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