God Promises His Will
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
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In today’s First15, 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.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's verse 15, we're launching a brand new series looking at various promises our Heavenly Father makes towards us, and we'll be creating space to take hold of them a little bit more every day. |
| 0:16.0 | 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. |
| 0:26.0 | 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. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 1 verses 9 through 10. |
| 1:02.6 | Scripture says, |
| 1:06.4 | Making known to us the mystery of his will, |
| 1:08.4 | according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ, |
| 1:10.7 | as a plan for the fullness of time, |
| 1:13.2 | to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. |
| 1:21.9 | In the life of Jesus, God illustrated not only his nearness to us, |
| 1:27.0 | but his desire to co-labor with us in his plans of redemption for all peoples, all generations, and all of creation. And within God's desire to partner with us on the earth, lies an incredible promise he makes to his people. God promises to share with us the knowledge of his will. |
| 1:46.7 | An incredible example of God sharing his will with his people is displayed in Ephesians 1, |
| 1:51.7 | verse 7 through 12. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses |
| 2:00.1 | according to the riches of His grace, |
| 2:02.3 | which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery of His will, |
| 2:08.9 | according to His purpose which He set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, |
| 2:14.6 | to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth. |
| 2:19.5 | In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose |
| 2:25.0 | of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we who were |
| 2:30.6 | the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. |
| 2:37.0 | Paul tells us that God, through the death of Jesus, revealed the mystery of His will to his people. |
| 2:45.0 | Jesus' death tells us of God's incredible plan to reconcile everything around us to himself. |
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