God Longs to be Encountered
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
One of the most scandalous truths of the gospel is that our Creator longs to be encountered by his creation. God longs to meet with us. His greatest desire is for relationship with us. God is pursuing each of us with his relentless love, seeking out those who might respond to his open invitation by opening the door of their hearts to him. My prayer is that in response to God’s desire to meet with his people we would be those who say yes to centering our lives around his nearness. May your week focus on God’s desire to be encountered be marked by the reality of his presence and love.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 14:2, and today's worship is Hide and Seek by First15 Worship feat. Nikki Moltz.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most scandalous truths of the gospel is that our Creator longs to be encountered by His creation. |
| 0:11.0 | God longs to meet with us. His greatest desire is for relationship with us. |
| 0:17.0 | God is pursuing each of us with His relentless love, seeking out those who might respond to his open |
| 0:23.5 | invitation by opening the door of their hearts to him. My prayer is that in response to God's desire |
| 0:30.2 | to meet with his people, we would be those who say yes to centering our lives around his nearness. |
| 0:40.5 | May your week focused on God's desire to be encountered, |
| 0:44.2 | be marked by the reality of his presence and love. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. Our scripture for today, we Psalm 14, verse 2. |
| 1:01.1 | Scripture says, |
| 1:02.6 | The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man |
| 1:05.9 | to see if there are any who understand, |
| 1:09.3 | who seek after God. |
| 1:12.8 | We serve a God who longs to be encountered. |
| 1:16.7 | Our God is not distant. |
| 1:18.7 | He's not a recluse. |
| 1:20.9 | Every morning, there is an open invitation set before us |
| 1:24.4 | to encounter the peaceful, tangible presence of the living God. In fact, it's because |
| 1:31.1 | of God's desire to be encountered that Scripture so often commands us to seek him. He is not a God |
| 1:38.4 | who hides, but he's also not a God who forces himself on us. He quietly beckons us to a life marked by his nearness, |
| 1:47.9 | asking us to seek Him that our heart might be open and receptive to Him. |
| 1:55.0 | First Chronicle 1611 commands us, |
| 1:57.9 | Seek the Lord in His strength, seek His presence continually. |
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