How to Give God What He Wants the Most, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What causes God’s blessings to flow to you and me? Chip looks at how God chooses whom He will pour out His blessings and how you can begin receiving those blessings, starting today.

Introduction: “Risk, reason, and the decision-making process” –Excerpt from Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1 – John’s Civil War Coins

Case Study #2 – Sheila’s Picasso

Questions to ponder:

What are the risks?
What are the potential rewards?
What would you do?
Why?

Three Principles:

Truth – What is true about the issue?
Knowledge – Have you educated yourself about the issue?
Faith – Do you believe it to the point of action?

Case Study #3 – Ancient Treasure -Mat. 13:44-46

Thesis – Total surrender is the CHANNEL through which God’s best and biggest blessings flow.
Definition – “Total commitment is the alignment of one’s motives, resources, priorities, and goals to fulfill a specific mission, accomplish a specific task, or follow a specific person.” -Webster’s Dictionary
Spiritual Insight – Through which lens do you view total commitment? Positive vs. Negative

The Problem: What does total commitment look like in our relationship with God? How does it work?

The Answer: Romans 12:1

The Command: “OFFER your bodies”

The Motivation: “The MERCY of God”

The Reason: “Spiritual act of WORSHIP.”

What does He want most?

He wants you!
All that you are and all that you have fully surrendered to Him.

Why surrender to His Lordship? -Ps. 84:11

Because total surrender is the channel through which God’s best and biggest blessings flow.

The Question: Are you ALL IN?

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:14.8	What do you give the person that has everything?
0:18.8	Every time that comes up on my Christmas list or birthday list, I get stumped.
0:23.0	But here's a bigger one.
0:24.6	How do you give God what he wants the most?
0:27.8	Have you ever thought of that?
0:29.5	You're going to learn exactly what he wants and how to give it to him.
0:33.3	That's today.
0:36.0	What does the creator of the universe truly want from you?
0:39.7	It's a question that haunts every honest seeker.
0:43.0	Well, today on Living on the Edge, Chip and Gromancers it head on.
0:46.7	Through gripping stories of treasure hunters and priceless discoveries,
0:50.7	he reveals a pattern Jesus used to shake people awake to spiritual reality.
0:56.1	You'll discover why God's invitation to total commitment isn't about losing your life.
1:00.6	It's about finally finding it.
1:02.6	This teaching challenges our deepest assumptions about what matters and exposes the plastic
1:07.6	pearls we desperately clutch while missing the real treasure.
1:11.6	Well, here's Chip Ingram with today's message, how to give God what he wants the most.
1:16.8	If I ask you kind of over a cup of coffee, where did your spiritual journey really begin as an adult?
1:23.8	What would you tell me? Where were you? What were the circumstances?
1:28.7	For me, it was the night I graduated from high school.
1:33.1	After being with some friends at a party,
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