BONUS: How to spiritually survive a quarantine
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The rise of COVID-19 has transformed the way we live our lives in this next season. Join Craig Denison and Josh Miller us as they talk about how to protect what’s most important in this time of anxiety and unrest. God desires to draw closer to you in this season. Don’t let your relationship with Him fall to the side as you adapt to life’s changing circumstances.
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As the world seems to be spinning out of control, we often wonder where God is in the midst of it. The truth is that God isn’t far away, but he is inviting us into a closer and deeper relationship with him. Let’s not allow social distancing to turn into spiritual distancing. Instead, let us find peace and hope in the arms of our Creator.
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| 0:00.0 | Josh so excited to be able to talk today as we look at in the midst of a |
| 0:09.3 | quarantine and this is social distancing everything with Cor coronavirus COVID-19. How can we as a people of God stay connected to God first and foremost? |
| 0:19.0 | Stay present with our emotions and our fears our anxieties us with young kids that |
| 0:25.5 | stay present with our kids in the midst of just being in such close quarters |
| 0:29.5 | constantly with our families even and then stay connected even in the midst of all this with each other as well. We know with First 15 that our heart is really to help believers drawn near to God. |
| 0:48.0 | That's the reason that First 15 exists is to provide a sense of a guide to a meaningful connection |
| 0:52.4 | with God in a daily basis through a format of a guide to a meaningful connection with God in a daily |
| 0:53.2 | basis through a format of a daily devotional primarily. We know that our |
| 0:57.4 | circumstances like this experience with the coronavirus COVID-19 |
| 1:00.8 | can only be roadblocks to that sense of connection with God as it disrupts our flow of our normal daily life and so I'm excited to talk with you today as a team. How can we help people kind of get an understanding of how to stay close to |
| 1:14.8 | God in the midst of this challenging season for us really around the world and so |
| 1:18.6 | for those you have aren't aware Josh really manages the first of team brand for me and with me. He helps us make |
| 1:25.4 | First 15 happen on a daily basis in so many different ways and so we circled up today as |
| 1:30.0 | a team and just decided I think that we thought it would be really meaningful to have a conversation even just us |
| 1:34.7 | with how we can help you whoever's listening to this maintain a sense of connection with God in the midst of this |
| 1:39.9 | challenging season so Josh thanks for being a part of this conversation. Yeah, so glad to do it. It's just a crazy season, you know, trying to figure out what life looks like in the midst of this. I, obviously, I've never experienced anything like this before. |
| 1:52.9 | I don't think anybody our age has experienced anything like this before. |
| 1:57.0 | And so it's just an interesting time and I thought, yeah, |
| 1:59.5 | it'd be great for us just to chat about what life looks like as a believer trying to connect with |
| 2:06.2 | God in this season where everything has changed where you know you and I right now are we're |
| 2:12.1 | typically what we typically would be working together in the same space and even for us doing this |
| 2:17.3 | this conversation we're doing this remotely and so like I you know I honestly can't guarantee my you won't hear my kids screaming in the background here in a few minutes |
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