God's Heart to Meet with Man: Jesus to Us
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🗓️ 28 June 2020
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Summary
As we continue our week on God’s heart to meet with man, today we’ll look at the best example I can think of. Many of us doubt the love of God due to all kinds of circumstances, but I pray today you become even a little bit more convinced and sure of his pursuit and unconditional love for you specifically. Open your heart today and allow God to give you a renewed sense of how much you mean to him.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 1:23, and today's worship is Christ the Lord is With Me by Steffany Gretzinger.
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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 continue our week on God's heart to meet with man, today we'll look at the best example I can think of. |
| 0:11.0 | Many of us doubt the love of God |
| 0:13.0 | due to all kinds of circumstances, |
| 0:15.0 | but I pray today that you become even a little bit more |
| 0:19.0 | convinced and sure of his pursuit and unconditional love for you specifically. |
| 0:24.0 | Open your heart today and allow God to give you a renewed sense of how much you mean to him. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Matthew 1 verse Scripture says, behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name |
| 0:57.6 | Emmanuel, which means God with us. There is no more powerful depiction of God's love for us than Jesus stepping |
| 1:08.8 | off his throne, to humble himself, take on flesh, and dwell among men. |
| 1:15.0 | Jesus coming down to us perfectly demonstrated God's grace and desire to meet with man. |
| 1:22.0 | Imagine for a minute the sacram. and desire to meet with man. |
| 1:26.0 | Imagine for a minute the sacrifice of Jesus. |
| 1:30.0 | Prior to coming down to us, he was spirit, like God the Father and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:32.0 | He dwelled everywhere and every point of time. |
| 1:36.4 | He was in perfect communion with the Father and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:40.6 | Jesus gave up the very nature of his existence that we might walk in restored relationship |
| 1:46.0 | with God. He sacrificed being Spirit that we might simply know God's love. |
| 1:53.8 | Jesus was the heart of God perfectly personified. |
| 1:57.6 | In everything he did, he clearly displayed God's heart |
| 2:01.1 | for mercy, grace, justice, redemption, and empowerment for his people. |
| 2:08.4 | He's the center of all history. |
| 2:10.7 | All of creation looks to him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. |
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