God Cares About the Present

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 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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0:00.0	Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, we've been afforded an opportunity
0:09.0	to live an incredibly abundant life here on earth.
0:12.8	Our God is nearer, more tangible, and has a greater ability to make his presence known
0:18.2	than we've yet realized.
0:20.5	He longs to make his children more in tune
0:22.7	and more aware of the depths of his love, guidance, empowerment, and nearness. He longs for our days
0:30.1	here on earth to be marked by unveiled communion with him. As we look at what it is to live an abundant
0:36.5	life here on earth, I pray that your heart will be
0:39.5	awakened to the reality of God's presence and affection in your life. Welcome to the
0:45.6	First of Teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from Matthew 6, verse 34.
1:03.2	Scripture says, therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
1:10.4	Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
1:13.6	I used to view my relationship with God as a straight line of spiritual progress.
1:21.6	My goal in spending time in the secret place with fellow believers at church and at work was to try and make
1:29.3	the movement across this line of spiritual growth as quickly and painlessly as possible. I would get
1:36.4	frustrated any time I got hung up on some issue or sin and couldn't experience freedom quickly
1:42.4	enough. My time spent with Jesus was more about how he could change me
1:47.2	than how deeply he already loves me.
1:51.2	We unfortunately live in a day and age
1:53.7	where speed and progress is everything.
1:57.3	We lose our patience as soon as a waiter takes too long to get us our check.
2:02.2	A light takes an extra 30 seconds than we want it to.
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