As we reach the middle of our week-long focus on stirring up our affections for God,

today we're going to create space to simply delight in God's love.

Oftentimes focusing on the simple foundational aspects of a relationship with God

will produce moon fruit than trying to journey beyond them. And I pray that God reveals his

love in a tangible and fresh way today for you and me as we open our hearts to

meet with him. Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

John 17 is an incredibly significant passage of scripture for Christians today.

Jesus prayed perfectly in accordance with the will of his father

and submission to him during his time on earth. Therefore everything Jesus prayed God will

accomplish. Part of the beauty of their oneness is shared desires. In

John 1726 Jesus praise to the Father I made known to them your name and I will

continue to make it known that the love with which you have

loved me may be in them and I in them. Imagine that Jesus says we can have the same love in us with which God the Father love Jesus.

Think of the magnitude of the love the Father has for his son.

And now think about God having the same magnitude of love

for you. You are his beloved, his prized possession. Your Heavenly Father gave up his own

son to have a personal relationship with you, to be able

to pour his vast love out on you.

The Bible describes David as a man after God's own heart. He was a man who was delighted in God's

love and experienced the joy of his presence throughout various seasons of life. In

Psalm 16-5 through 11, David wrote,

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup.

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