Encountering God through Faith
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Having consistent and transformational encounters with God while on earth is meant to be foundational to the Christian life. Our God has not left us. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we’ve been filled with the very Spirit of God who longs to reveal to us daily the nearness and love of our heavenly Father. We are never alone. There is nowhere we can flee from the presence of our God. May this week be filled with transformational encounters with the living God as we learn what it is to seek the face of the one who has formed us, knows us, and loves us unconditionally.
Our Scripture for today comes from Hebrews 11:6, and today's worship is Confident by Steffany Gretzinger & Bobby Strand.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Having consistent and transformational encounters with God while on the earth is meant to be foundational |
| 0:12.0 | to the Christian life. Our God has not left us. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we have been |
| 0:19.0 | filled with the very spirit of God who longs to reveal to us daily nearness and love of our |
| 0:26.0 | Father. We are never alone. There is nowhere we can flee from the presence of God. May this week |
| 0:33.0 | be filled with transformational encounters with the living God as we learn what it is to seek the |
| 0:39.0 | face of the one who has formed us, knows us, and loves us unconditionally. Welcome to the |
| 0:46.0 | first 15 podcast. By faith we have come into the throne room of God and have had an authentic |
| 0:58.0 | transformational encounter with our Creator. By faith we accept the free gift of eternal salvation. |
| 1:05.0 | By faith we believe we will one day live in heaven with our Father. In its by faith that we seek |
| 1:13.0 | the fullness of relationship available to us on earth. Hebrews 116 says, and without faith |
| 1:20.0 | it is impossible to police him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists |
| 1:26.0 | and that he rewards those who seek him. The Lord longs to reward your seeking him with an abundance |
| 1:33.0 | of his presence. You can have consistent transformational encounters with God, but in order to seek God |
| 1:40.0 | you must take him at his word. You must believe that he will reward you out of his good pleasure |
| 1:47.0 | when you come to him with faith. Romans 10-17 says, so faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. |
| 1:55.0 | Faith is simply a response to God's promises and faithfulness. We can have faith because our God has proven |
| 2:03.0 | himself holy, faithful. When he says in Revelation 3-20, behold I stand at the door and knock. |
| 2:10.0 | If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into him and eat with him and he with me. |
| 2:17.0 | He is making a foundational promise to you. The Lord knocks on the door of your heart and longs to meet with you. |
| 2:26.0 | He is asking you to have the faith to make space in your life. Open your heart to him as an act of trust and meet with him. |
| 2:35.0 | His presence is fully available to you here. The veil separating us in the presence of God was torn by the power of Jesus' sacrifice. |
| 2:45.0 | Hebrews 10-22 says, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith with our heart's sprinkle clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. |
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