Delighting in God's Love
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
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 our relationship with God will produce more 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.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:26, and today's worship is Get Your Hopes Up by Josh Baldwin.
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| 0:00.0 | As we reach the middle of our week-long focus on stirring up our affections for God, today |
| 0:10.3 | we're going to create space to simply delight in God's love. |
| 0:15.0 | Often times, focusing on the simple, foundational aspects of our relationship with God will produce |
| 0:20.4 | more fruit than trying to journey beyond them, and I pray that God reveals His love in |
| 0:26.9 | a tangible and fresh way today for you and me as we open our hearts to meet with Him. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | Our verse of today comes from John 17 verse 26. |
| 0:54.0 | John 17 is an incredibly significant passage of scripture for Christians today. |
| 1:15.0 | Jesus prayed perfectly in accordance with the will of the Father in submission to Him |
| 1:20.4 | during His time on earth. |
| 1:22.6 | Therefore, everything Jesus prayed, God will accomplish. |
| 1:28.1 | Part of the beauty of their oneness is shared desires. |
| 1:33.1 | In John 1726, Jesus praised the Father, I may known to them your name, and I will continue |
| 1:40.5 | to make it known that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them. |
| 1:49.4 | Imagine that, Jesus says we can have the same love in us with which God the Father loved |
| 1:55.4 | Jesus. |
| 1:57.4 | Think of the magnitude of love the Father has for His Son, and now think about God having |
| 2:03.0 | that same magnitude of love for you. |
| 2:07.1 | You are His beloved, His prized possession. |
| 2:11.1 | Your Heavenly Father gave up His own Son to have personal relationship with you, to be |
| 2:16.4 | able to pour out His vast love on you. |
| 2:20.4 | The Bible describes David as a man after God's own heart. |
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