God's Heart Doesn't Stop with Us
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we end our week on knowing God’s heart for us, we’re going to focus on the call to action that God’s heart doesn’t just stop with us, but is meant to be carried through us into the lives of those around us. When you are operating out of God’s love daily secure in his affections for you, God can do miraculous things through you. Just imagine how God could use you to bless and enrich the lives of others – the possibilities are endless.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 4:7, and today's worship is I Don't Have Much by Mission House.
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| 0:18.0 | As we end our week on knowing God's heart for us, we're going to focus on the call to action that God's heart doesn't just stop with us, but is meant to be carried through into the lives of those around us. When you're operating out of God's love, daily secure in His affections for you. God can do miraculous things through |
| 0:26.1 | you. Just imagine how God could use you to bless and enrich the lives of others. |
| 0:33.5 | The possibilities are endless. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from 1st John 4 verse 7 where scripture says |
| 0:58.6 | Beloved let us love one another for love is from God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God |
| 1:12.1 | As wonderful and life-giving as it is to access the heart of God for ourselves, |
| 1:18.0 | having God's heart isn't meant to stop with us. |
| 1:23.1 | His heart is meant to fill us, empower us, |
| 1:26.7 | and transform us to live in such a way |
| 1:29.9 | that were light in the darkness. |
| 1:33.5 | In Matthew 5, 14 through 16, Jesus said, |
| 1:37.6 | you are the light of the world. |
| 1:40.1 | A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. |
| 1:43.7 | Nor new people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand and it gives light to all in the |
| 1:50.8 | house. |
| 1:51.5 | In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see |
| 1:57.5 | your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven. |
| 2:08.8 | As a believer, you can reveal the heart of God to others. |
| 2:16.0 | You've been given access to a deep, revelatory knowledge of God's love, that you might shine the light of God's goodness to a world that only knows darkness. |
| 2:22.3 | You can reveal the heart of God through the way you honor rather |
| 2:26.0 | than speaking ill. You can represent the humility of Jesus by serving rather than being self-seeking. You can reveal God's grace by |
| 2:37.7 | offering compassion when others treat you poorly and you can display the courage that comes from a true understanding of |
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