God Demonstrates His Grace

First15 Devotional

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God’s limitless grace. I find myself in every facet of Jesus’ words of this story. I identify with the younger son’s rebellion. I identify with the older son’s judgement and resentment. I identify with the experience of the father’s compassion and love.

Today we begin a week long focus at this lifegiving, and perception shattering story of Jesus, the story of the prodigal son. May God draw you even closer to him this week, and teach of you his redemptive and life changing love.

Our Scripture for today comes from John 1:6, and today's worship is It’s Always Been You by Phil Wickham.

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0:00.0	The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God's limitless grace.
0:10.0	I find myself in every facet of Jesus' words of this story.
0:15.0	I identify with the younger son's rebellion.
0:18.0	I identify with the older son's judgment and resentment, and I identify with the experience
0:23.6	of the Father's compassion and love.
0:26.6	Today, we begin a week-long focus at this life-giving and perception-shattering story of Jesus,
0:33.6	the story of the prodigal son.
0:35.6	May God draw you even closer to him this week
0:38.6	and teach you of his redemptive and life-changing love.
0:42.2	Welcome to the first of teen podcast.
0:52.2	Our verse for today comes from John 1-6. Scripture says, and from his fullness, we have all received
0:59.7	grace upon grace. No single passage of scripture has impacted my life in greater ways than Jesus'
1:08.3	is parable of the prodigal sin. I find myself in every facet of this story. I see my
1:15.2	own sin and pride in the foolishness of the son to run from the father. I see the despair and
1:21.8	destitution that results from my own sin as the son longs for the slop that he fed to pigs.
1:28.3	I see my desperate need for forgiveness, grace, and restoration in the son's return.
1:36.3	And more than anything, I see the unfathomable grace of my Heavenly Father
1:42.3	as the Father in the story runs out to embrace his disobedient and
1:47.2	wayward child. So rather than beginning this week on the prodigal son with my thoughts on this story,
1:52.9	I want to create space to allow the entirety of Jesus' words in this transformative story
1:59.4	to impact your life. Ask the Holy Spirit for fresh
2:04.1	eyes today. Find yourself in Jesus' words. I pray that you will feel the despair and loneliness
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