God is Good
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re going to dive deeper into the reality of God’s goodness. At every turn, just when I wonder how good God really is, he always has a plan to show me how truly loving and good he is. So as we begin, where are you questioning God’s goodness today? When things go wrong, when we get hurt, it’s only natural to start questioning and building walls. But rather than going our own way, let’s come before God with confidence, asking our questions and inviting him to meet us in a meaningful way today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 27:13, and today's worship is Evidence by Josh Baldwin feat. Dante Bowe.
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As believers, we want a real connection with God every day, not just on Sunday. We want the peace and passion that comes from living with God, not for God. But when Monday morning rolls around we’re left thinking:
“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Craig Denison. I'm the author of First 15. |
| 0:10.0 | As we begin, let's posture our hearts with hope and expectation. |
| 0:15.0 | God is real, God is present, and God is good. |
| 0:19.0 | He has amazing plans to refresh us, encourage us, and reveal |
| 0:23.0 | himself to us right now. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | The scripture will be focusing on today comes from Psalm 27, verse 13, where David proclaims, I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. |
| 0:52.3 | May we join David in faith as we pursue a real revelation of the fact that God is good. |
| 1:02.0 | God is good. |
| 1:03.6 | What emotion does that fact stir in you? |
| 1:06.9 | I know for some this phrase stirs up unspeakable joy, |
| 1:10.7 | while others of us seem to be immune to its emotion in our lives. |
| 1:14.6 | I believe that the issue for many of us is that the phrase God is good is so frequently said |
| 1:20.6 | and so infrequently experienced. |
| 1:23.6 | For many of us, we're just told that God is good from a young age, but we're seldom given the chance to experience that goodness. |
| 1:31.3 | Goodness is something meant to be experienced and then believed, not the other way around. |
| 1:36.3 | David said that he would look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. |
| 1:42.3 | He had already seen God's goodness in his life |
| 1:45.5 | and believed that he would see it again. He knew for a fact that God was good, and therefore he sought |
| 1:51.8 | to experience that goodness. And it's the same heart that the sons of Cora had and the famous Psalm 84 |
| 1:58.2 | singing, how lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts. |
| 2:02.6 | My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord. |
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