Carrying the Presence of Christ
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we finish our week on drawing near to God this Advent season, today we’ll focus outward on how we can carry the presence of Christ into our spheres of influence. We have learned this week that God is with us always and available to us at all times. There is never a time he isn’t by your side, and you have the profound privilege of carrying his presence with you everywhere you go. As you practice sensitivity, God will be faithful to show up and move in amazing ways. May this Christmas season be blessed beyond measure as you seek to show the world his love.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 4:17. Today's worship is Make Me A Vessel by Vessel Collective.
Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the last in our week-long focus on drawing near.
Tomorrow we’re starting a quick two day series focusing specifically on Christmas. My hope and prayer is that these next two devotionals really root and ground us in the goodness of God, and equip us to soak up every bit of God’s goodness in these two wonderful days.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish our week on drawing near to God this Advent season, today we'll focus outward |
| 0:11.0 | on how we can carry the presence of Christ into our spheres of influence. We've learned this week |
| 0:17.0 | that God is with us always and available to us at all times. There is never a time |
| 0:22.3 | he isn't by your side, and you have the profound privilege of carrying his presence with you |
| 0:27.3 | everywhere you go. As you practice sensitivity, God will be faithful to show up and move in |
| 0:33.5 | amazing ways. May this Christmas season be blessed beyond measure as you seek to show the world as love. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the first 15th podcast. |
| 0:49.4 | We have the privilege as Jesus' disciples of carrying His presence with us into the world. |
| 0:55.8 | God and His love has chosen to use us as agents of awakening. |
| 1:00.7 | He's commissioned us to go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in |
| 1:05.9 | the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:09.7 | And in 1 John 4.15 through 17, we gain an insight into the way in which God would have us make disciples. |
| 1:17.5 | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, and He and God. |
| 1:23.8 | So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. |
| 1:28.3 | God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him. |
| 1:33.3 | By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, |
| 1:39.3 | because as He is, so also are we in this world. |
| 1:43.3 | As He is so also are we in this world. As He is so also are we in this world. What a powerful |
| 1:48.5 | statement. God's plan for the world is to form and fashion us into those who reflect His goodness to |
| 1:55.6 | others. The hope of the world rest in Jesus' mercy and grace as proclaimed through our lives. |
| 2:03.4 | And the only way in which we carry Jesus with us into the world is by abiding in God and |
| 2:09.5 | allowing Him to abide in us. Do you know that you can abide in God and not just in spending |
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