God Promises His Comfort
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re continuing our series focusing on God’s promises by looking at his promise of comfort. We serve a God of all mercy and comfort, a God who knows our pain, weeps with us, and has a perfect plan to lead us to abundant life even in the midst of it all. Let’s come to God today open-hearted, ready and willing to receive his comfort, that we might be nearer to him as the result of our time together.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 1:3, and today's worship is Nothing to Fear by The Porter's Gate feat. Audrey Assad.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're continuing our series focusing on God's promises by looking |
| 0:10.2 | at His promise of comfort. |
| 0:12.5 | We serve a God of all mercy and comfort, a God who knows our pain, weeps with us and |
| 0:18.8 | has a perfect plan to lead us to abundant life, even in the midst of it all. |
| 0:24.8 | It's come to God today, open-hearted, ready and willing to receive His comfort, that |
| 0:30.3 | we might be mirrored to Him as a result of our time together. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:39.9 | Second Corinthians 1-3 tells us of a wonderful aspect of God's character, that He is the |
| 0:45.5 | Father of Mercies and God of all comfort. |
| 0:49.3 | In a world wrought with depression and hurt, we have a Father who is the source of all |
| 0:54.3 | comfort. |
| 0:55.3 | We serve the God of compassion and love. |
| 0:59.0 | Let's allow the truth of God's comfort to fill us today. |
| 1:02.4 | Let's rest in the goodness of God's presence and let him minister to any areas in which |
| 1:07.8 | we feel hurt or depressed. |
| 1:11.0 | David tells us in Psalm 34-18, the Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves the crushed |
| 1:17.4 | in spirit. |
| 1:18.9 | Psalm 34 comes in the context of David fleeing from Saul's persecution. |
| 1:23.7 | David, in this season of life, knew all too well what it's like to need comfort. |
| 1:29.4 | His circumstances were anything but peaceful, but in this moment, God faithfully delivered |
| 1:35.3 | him again from the hands of Saul. |
| 1:38.4 | David writes, this poor man cried, and the Lord hurt him and saved him of all his troubles. |
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