God Cares About the Present
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus we have been afforded an opportunity to live an incredibly abundant life here on earth. Our God is nearer, more tangible, and has a greater ability to make his presence known than we’ve yet realized. He longs to make his children more in tune and aware of the depths of his love, guidance, empowerment, and nearness. He longs for our days here on earth to be marked by unveiled communion with him. As we look at what it is to live an abundant life here on earth, I pray that your heart will be awakened to the reality of God’s presence and affection in your life.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 6:34, and today's worship is Here Now by Hillsong United.
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Thanks so much for listening to today’s podcast, God cares about the present, the first in our week-long look at living an abundant life.
If you’re looking for a practical way to practice being present today, one long standing spiritual practice is called breath prayer. Taking just a few minutes to focus on nothing but your breath, in and out, is a great way to learn how to focus on the present not just in prayer, but throughout the rest of your day.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, we have been afforded an opportunity |
| 0:09.4 | to live an incredibly abundant life here on earth. |
| 0:13.1 | Our God is nearer, more tangible, and has a greater ability to make his presence known than |
| 0:18.7 | we've yet realized. |
| 0:20.3 | He longs to make his children more in tune and more aware of the depths of his love, |
| 0:24.6 | guidance, empowerment, and urnance. |
| 0:27.1 | He longs for our days here on earth to be marked by unveiled communion with him. |
| 0:31.7 | As we look at what it is to live an abundant life here on earth, |
| 0:35.5 | I pray that your heart will be awakened to the reality of God's |
| 0:39.2 | presence and affection in your life. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. I used to view my relationship |
| 0:47.6 | with God as a straight line of spiritual progress. My goal in spending time in the secret place with |
| 0:54.1 | fellow believers at church and at work |
| 0:56.4 | was to try and make the movement across this line of spiritual growth as quickly and as painlessly |
| 1:03.2 | as possible. I would get frustrated any time I got hung up on some issue or sin and couldn't |
| 1:10.0 | experience freedom quickly enough. |
| 1:12.2 | My time spent with Jesus was more about how he could change me than how deeply he already loves me. |
| 1:19.2 | We unfortunately live in a day in age where speed and progress is everything. |
| 1:25.2 | We lose our patience as soon as a waiter takes too long to get us |
| 1:28.7 | our check. A light takes an extra 30 seconds than we want it to. A driver holds us back |
| 1:34.8 | five minutes from our destination, or a conversation interrupts the jam-packed schedule of our |
| 1:40.5 | day. And painfully, we have allowed our culture to shape our perspective of God's |
| 1:46.0 | heart for us, rather than allowing his word and spirit to reveal how incredibly patient |
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