God Promises His Will
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re launching a brand new series looking at various promises our heavenly Father makes towards us, and creating space to take hold of them a little bit more every day. Today we’re looking at how God promises us his will, and how we can live our lives in connection to his desires and plans for us. May God stir our hearts to surrender anything that isn’t best for us, and may he empower us to take hold of his passion, and his desires, that we might align our lives with his will.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 1:9-10, and today's worship is Promises by Maverick City.
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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 launching a brand new series looking at various promises |
| 0:10.9 | our Heavenly Father makes towards us and creating space to take hold of them a little bit more |
| 0:16.9 | every day. |
| 0:17.9 | Today, we're looking at how God promises us His will and how we can live our lives and |
| 0:23.9 | connection to His desires and plans for us. |
| 0:27.5 | May God stir our hearts to surrender anything that isn't best for us, and may He empower |
| 0:33.0 | us to take hold of His passion and His desires that we might align our lives with His will. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to the first 15 podcasts. |
| 0:48.6 | In the life of Jesus, God illustrated not only His nearness to us, but His desire to |
| 0:54.4 | co-labor with us in His plans of redemption for all peoples, all generations, and all |
| 1:01.5 | of creation. |
| 1:03.1 | And within God's desire to partner with us on earth, lies an incredible promise He |
| 1:08.4 | makes to His people. |
| 1:10.7 | God promises to share with us the knowledge of His will. |
| 1:14.8 | An incredible example of God sharing His will with His people is displayed in Ephesians |
| 1:20.6 | 1-7-12. |
| 1:23.0 | In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according |
| 1:28.7 | to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us, and all wisdom and insight, making |
| 1:35.1 | known to us the mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ |
| 1:41.7 | as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in Him, things in heaven, and things |
| 1:48.4 | on earth. |
| 1:49.8 | In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose |
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