B.I.O. - Practice #1: Come Before God Daily, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Do you find it challenging to make Bible reading and prayer a regular part of your life? You know it is important, yet it often feels like an obligation or punching a spiritual time card. In this program, Chip tackles this common struggle with some sound, godly wisdom. Discover how to have a more joyful connection to God by transforming your quiet time from a duty–to a discipline–and ultimately to a delight.
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 | Are you struggling to regularly read your Bible and pray? |
| 0:05.1 | I mean, you really want to, and you know how important it is, |
| 0:08.3 | but it feels like an obligation or like you're punching a spiritual time card. |
| 0:12.9 | Let me tell you, I was there, and today I want to share with you a little secret |
| 0:17.4 | that moved my quiet time with God from a duty to a discipline to a delight. |
| 0:23.9 | Stay with me. |
| 0:26.3 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.9 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry, focused on helping |
| 0:35.7 | Christians live like Christians. Today we're continuing |
| 0:39.0 | our newest series. We're calling Bio, three essential practices to becoming more like Jesus. |
| 0:44.9 | The last time Chip studied Jesus' habit of meeting with His Heavenly Father daily, what we can |
| 0:50.3 | learn from his example. Chip has much more insightful wisdom |
| 0:54.2 | to share about this first practice, |
| 0:56.1 | so let's get going. |
| 0:57.3 | He begins the second half of his message |
| 0:59.2 | by continuing to identify the vital lessons |
| 1:02.1 | Christ shared with his disciples. |
| 1:05.5 | The second thing that Jesus taught |
| 1:07.1 | was that our view of God in prayer |
| 1:09.0 | will determine our intimacy and our answers. |
| 1:11.9 | Our view of God. He was a man of prayer, and his disciples would watch him pray. |
| 1:17.5 | And they had the Pharisees' prayers that they heard. They go on street corners, and they would |
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