Encountering God through Scripture
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this world, it’s not difficult to become disheartened, visionless and confused about the direction of our lives or our circumstances. But God has given us a priceless gift to ground and root us in truth and vision for life—his word. If you’re feeling purposeless or lost today, look no further than the wisdom God has graciously provided through the Bible. Today we’ll dive into how we can encounter God through Scripture.
Our Scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 15:16, and today's worship is Your Word by Hillsong Worship.
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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 | In this world, it's not difficult to become disheartened, visionless and confused about |
| 0:10.4 | the direction of our lives or circumstances, but God has given us a priceless gift to |
| 0:17.0 | ground and root us in truth, and a vision for life is word. |
| 0:22.2 | If you're feeling purposeless or lost today, look no further than the wisdom God has graciously |
| 0:28.0 | provided through the Bible. Today we'll dive into how we can encounter God through Scripture. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to the 1st 15 podcast. In Scripture, we have a perfect and directional avenue to |
| 0:42.8 | powerful and transformational encounters with God. Jeremiah 1516 says, your words were |
| 0:50.0 | founded and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for |
| 0:57.0 | I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. In Scripture, we find both our weaknesses |
| 1:03.6 | and God's unfailing love portrayed through countless stories. God has spoken to us all |
| 1:10.3 | we need in Scripture to both understand and pursue wholehearted, unveiled relationship |
| 1:16.2 | with Him. The very Spirit who authored the words of Scripture longs to use it to guide |
| 1:22.6 | you and me into powerful encounters with our Heavenly Father. I fear that many believers |
| 1:27.7 | today are missing the intended meaning behind Scripture. The Bible is not God. It is designed |
| 1:34.3 | to act as a guide to knowing its author. It is designed to give us a desire and understanding |
| 1:40.7 | about this God who is living, active, and near to us. Isaiah 55-11 says, so shall my word |
| 1:48.4 | be that goes out for my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish |
| 1:54.4 | that which I purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. God's purpose |
| 2:00.6 | has always been restored relationship with His people. His goal is our hearts and His |
| 2:06.8 | word is powerful in accomplishing His purpose. Psalm 1-1-3 says, blessed is a man who walks |
| 2:14.4 | not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the ways of sinners, nor sits in the seat |
| 2:19.9 | of scoffers, but His delight is on the law of the Lord, and on His law He meditates day |
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