God is Already at Work
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🗓️ 27 February 2021
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Summary
If we are going to be used by God, we must first acknowledge that he is already at work all around us, and that his work isn’t contingent upon us. This is not something we’re starting up. The weight is not on our shoulders—the pressure is off. I hope today you’re freed up to be used by God out of joy and delight rather than obligation or stress.
Our Scripture for today comes from Philippians 2:13, and today's worship is All Things Right by Cameron Moder.
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| 0:00.0 | If we are going to be used by God, we must first acknowledge that he is already at work all around us, |
| 0:12.0 | and that his work isn't contingent upon us. It's not something we're starting up. The weight isn't on our shoulders and the pressure is off. |
| 0:22.9 | I hope today that you're freed up to be used by God out of joy and delight rather than |
| 0:28.7 | obligation or stress. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today. |
| 0:53.8 | Our verse for today comes from Philippians 2, verse 13, or Paul writes, |
| 0:55.0 | It is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. |
| 1:04.0 | God is calling you and me to a lifestyle of joining him where he is already at work. Foundational to co-laboring with God is acknowledging |
| 1:15.4 | that he is in constant pursuit of humanity. There is nowhere you can go that God won't be. There's |
| 1:24.5 | no one you can talk to to whom God doesn't already see, love relentlessly, and have amazing plans for. |
| 1:32.3 | Sharing God's heart begin and ends with His grace. His grace empowers us to step outside of ourselves and love others. |
| 1:48.5 | And grace, he pursues us even in our sin. |
| 1:55.0 | Grace sent Jesus to die for us, that we might have salvation through him. |
| 1:59.9 | And it's by grace that we receive that free gift of salvation. |
| 2:01.6 | It's important to understand God's grace, because without it, we work in vain. |
| 2:07.6 | If we operate under the perspective that salvation, healing, deliverance and freedom for others hinges on our ability or our mercy, we will achieve nothing. |
| 2:20.3 | But when we understand that we are merely carriers of God's heart and fellow recipients of God's lavish grace, |
| 2:29.3 | we work from a place of power and truth. |
| 2:35.0 | 1 Timothy 2 3 through 4 says, |
| 2:38.0 | This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, |
| 2:43.0 | who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth. |
| 2:49.0 | In Philippians 2.13 says, It is God who works in you, both to will and to work for |
| 2:56.4 | his good pleasure. |
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