God's Relentless Pursuit
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In today’s First15devotional we’re beginning a brand new series, focusing on the fact that God is first and foremost, after our hearts. In a world that defines us by what we do, God looks at who we are. May we openly accept his gaze today, with faith in our hearts that he always looks at us with grace. And may his pursuit of our hearts stir up a pursuit within us of his heart, setting out every morning to experience the fullness of his love and compassion.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's devotional, we're beginning a brand new series, focusing on the fact that God is first and foremost after our hearts. |
| 0:13.0 | In a world that defines us by what we do, God looks at who we are. |
| 0:19.0 | May we openly accept his gaze today, with faith in our hearts that he always looks at who we are. May we openly accept his gaze today with faith in our hearts that he |
| 0:24.2 | always looks at us with grace. And may his pursuit of our hearts stir up a pursuit within us of his |
| 0:31.9 | heart, setting out every morning to experience the fullness of his love and compassion. Welcome to the First 15 |
| 0:41.0 | podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 23 verse 6. |
| 1:11.3 | Scripture says, |
| 1:13.4 | surely goodness and mercy |
| 1:15.5 | shall follow me all the days of my life. |
| 1:22.1 | The foundation for our faith |
| 1:24.6 | is not meant to be built on our works |
| 1:27.3 | or our understanding, but rather on |
| 1:30.8 | God's relentless pursuit of us. We have relationship with our Creator, not because we sought |
| 1:38.2 | him out, but because he is always pursuing us. Any elements of Christian spirituality at work in our lives are the result of his constant grace, |
| 1:50.5 | drawing us deeper and deeper into the abundant life Jesus died to give us. |
| 1:57.3 | Faith built on anything else but God's pursuit is faith built on our own strength an unsure and |
| 2:06.1 | consistently failing foundation. Ephesians 1 verses 16 through 18 says I do not cease to give thanks for you |
| 2:16.7 | remembering you in my prayers that that the God of our Lord |
| 2:21.2 | Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in |
| 2:28.5 | the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, |
| 2:38.1 | what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints? |
| 2:44.0 | If we need a fresh understanding of God's pursuit, |
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