Encountering God through Prayer
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 June 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Prayer is so simple, but often times our minds convolute and complicate it. Today we’re exploring how to encounter God through prayer, and I pray you take away a simplified, childlike approach to spending time with your heavenly Father. May your heart and mind be at peace today as you encounter the living God.
Our Scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 33:3, and today's worship is Take Me Home by Matthew McGinley.
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As believers, we want a real connection with God every day, not just on Sunday. We want the peace and passion that comes from living with God, not for God. But when Monday morning rolls around we’re left thinking:
“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
At First15, we know that meaningful worship isn’t just for Sunday. Every believer should be able to find a daily connection to God with fresh worship created specifically for their weekday.
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| 0:00.0 | Prayer is so simple, but oftentimes our minds convoluted and complicated. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're exploring how to encounter God through prayer, and I pray you take away a simplified, |
| 0:16.0 | childlike approach to spending time with your Heavenly Father. May your heart and mind be at peace |
| 0:23.1 | today as you encounter the living God. Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from Jeremiah 33, verse 3. |
| 0:48.6 | Scripture says, call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things |
| 0:55.6 | that you have not known. |
| 0:59.7 | Through prayer, we have access to deep encounters |
| 1:02.8 | with the heart and mind of our Heavenly Father. |
| 1:06.1 | Jeremiah 333 says, |
| 1:08.2 | Call to me and I will answer you |
| 1:09.9 | and will tell you great and hidden things that you have |
| 1:13.1 | not known. God longs for us to call to him as our source of life, wisdom, guidance, and truth. |
| 1:22.6 | He longs to answer our calls by shepherding us into a lifestyle of continually seeking and receiving revelation |
| 1:29.7 | from His Word and Spirit. But in order for us to truly engage with God in prayer, we must learn |
| 1:37.4 | what it means to listen. Mother Teresa said, prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at his disposition, |
| 1:49.0 | and listening to his voice and the depth of our hearts. |
| 1:54.0 | I find we do not pray incorrectly as believers from a lack of earnest desire for God, |
| 2:00.0 | but rather from a lack of knowledge and past experience. |
| 2:03.6 | Do you know and believe that you can truly put yourself in the hands of your Heavenly Father and listen to his voice as Mother Teresa did? |
| 2:14.6 | Do you know that your Creator longs to open your eyes and heart, |
| 2:19.3 | to receive the knowledge of his love, will, and divine nature? |
| 2:25.3 | Taking time to listen to God in prayer is at the very core of Christian spirituality. |
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