Encountering God through Prayer
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 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 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 | Prayer is so simple but oftentimes our minds convoluted and complicated. Today we're exploring |
| 0:13.4 | how to encounter God through prayer and I pray you take away a simplified childlike |
| 0:20.5 | approach to spending time with your Heavenly Father. May your heart and mind be at peace |
| 0:26.0 | today as you encounter the living God. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | Through prayer we have access to deep encounters with the heart and mind of our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:42.9 | Jeremiah 333 says, call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and hidden things |
| 0:50.6 | that you have not known. God longs for us to call him as our source of life, wisdom, |
| 0:57.0 | guidance and truth. He longs to answer our calls by shepherding us into a lifestyle of continually |
| 1:04.0 | seeking and receiving revelation from his word and spirit. But in order for us to truly engage |
| 1:11.1 | with God and prayer we must learn what it means to listen. Mother Teresa said prayer is not asking, |
| 1:18.8 | prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at his disposition and listening to his voice |
| 1:25.9 | in the depths of our hearts. I find that we do not pray incorrectly as believers from a lack |
| 1:32.6 | of earnest desire for God but rather from a lack of knowledge and past experience. Do you know and |
| 1:40.0 | believe that you can truly put yourself in the hands of your Heavenly Father and listen to his |
| 1:46.2 | voice as Mother Teresa did? Do you know that your creator longs to open your eyes and heart to |
| 1:52.6 | receive the knowledge of his love, will and divine nature? Taking time to listen to God and prayer |
| 2:00.0 | is at the very core of Christian spirituality. It is a skill of the highest value that is only learned |
| 2:07.3 | by patience, repetition and faith. You can hear God because he wants to talk to you. You have no |
| 2:14.7 | less inherent ability to hear God than me, Mother Teresa, or any of the disciples. Those who hear |
| 2:22.2 | God are simply those who make space and seek out his voice. Psalm 4610 says, Be still and know that |
| 2:31.2 | I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. In stillness we grow |
| 2:39.0 | in our knowledge of who God truly is. God longs to make us a people who know him the way you know |
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