God Promises His Freedom
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we enter the middle of our series on God’s promises, today we’re going to look at his promise of freedom. Every day this world tries to chain us to its ways, holding us down where God is trying to lift us up. But in Jesus, we’ve been offered total and complete freedom. And in the Spirit we’re offered a continual pathway to exercise that freedom. Whether it’s fear, lust, pride, or something else, God has real freedom for you today in his presence. May chains break today in light of God’s glorious grace.
Our Scripture for today comes from Galatians 5:1, and today's worship is Raise a Hallelujah by Bethel Music.
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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 | As we enter the middle of our series on God's promises, today we're going to look at his promise |
| 0:11.6 | of freedom. |
| 0:13.4 | Every day, this world tries to chain us to its ways, holding us down where God is trying |
| 0:19.2 | to lift us up. |
| 0:21.0 | But in Jesus, we've been offered total and complete freedom. |
| 0:25.7 | And in the Spirit, we're offered a continual pathway to exercise that freedom. |
| 0:31.8 | Whether it's fear, lust, pride, or something else, God has a real freedom for you today |
| 0:38.3 | in His presence. |
| 0:40.0 | May chains break free today in light of God's glorious grace. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the 1st-15 podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | Freedom is an area we spend most of our lives striving to experience. |
| 0:56.4 | The bonds of slavery to the world in any fashion choke out our ability to thrive and enjoy life. |
| 1:03.6 | We as a culture celebrate monumental events like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the global |
| 1:09.8 | civil rights movement because we know freedom to be necessary for a life to be lived to |
| 1:15.5 | its fullest. |
| 1:17.0 | We fight for the freedom of those held in captivity. |
| 1:20.7 | We advocate for those silenced by the bonds of slavery. |
| 1:24.8 | In Scripture makes it clear that God is no different. |
| 1:28.6 | One of the most pervasive themes in Scripture is freedom. |
| 1:32.8 | Its pages are filled with the stories of God delivering His people from the bondage of |
| 1:37.8 | slavery. |
| 1:39.2 | Jesus Himself freed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the fiery furnace. |
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