How to Meet with God for a Lifetime

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🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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David Mathis | How do we meet with God in his word for a lifetime? Every morning, seek to gather a day’s portion.

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0:00.0	Gather a day's portion.
0:07.0	I'll unpack that in just a minute.
0:09.0	Gather a day's portion.
0:11.0	You might call it faithful realism in daily Bible intake.
0:17.0	In short, don't try to do too much.
0:20.0	Don't try to acquire a lifetime's worth of Bible knowledge
0:25.0	in a few short months or weeks.
0:29.0	And on the other hand, don't fall off the wagon
0:32.0	when you miss a day and go long stretches
0:35.0	without coming to God in His Word.
0:38.0	Rather, adopt a modest, realistic approach
0:45.0	to meeting with God in His Word
0:47.0	and seek to be faithful for the long haul.
0:53.0	Coming to feed on God through His Word to be nourished,
0:59.0	to receive, not to achieve in morning devotions.
1:05.0	So gather a day's portion.
1:07.0	And I'll flesh this out in five brief aspects.
1:10.0	But first, let me give you some context
1:13.0	from where I'm getting a strange phrase
1:15.0	about gathering a day's portion.
1:17.0	Some of you may know.
1:18.0	It's Exodus chapter 16.
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