Jesus picked you for this reason (John 15:16-17)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back my friends, |
| 0:05.0 | my friends. It's time for the morning mindset. Thank you for joining me. This is |
| 0:07.6 | Carrie Green. I'm a retired pastor who really has no interest in retiring. |
| 0:12.0 | I am all about encouraging you. |
| 0:15.4 | In your faith in Jesus Christ, I want you to be encouraged and built up in the truth of |
| 0:20.4 | what Jesus has done and who Jesus is. |
| 0:24.0 | That's why I record these daily morning mindset recordings. |
| 0:27.8 | I hope that you're being blessed by them. |
| 0:29.8 | Today we're looking again in John chapter 15 where Jesus is speaking directly to his disciples |
| 0:36.5 | and therefore directly to us. He is explaining some things to us about our relationship with |
| 0:42.0 | him. |
| 0:43.4 | And in yesterday's episode, I hope you go back and listen to that if you have not heard it. |
| 0:47.9 | Jesus pointed out to us something that happens behind the scenes that enables us to place our faith in him. |
| 0:56.0 | And that is that before we choose him, he chooses us. |
| 1:02.0 | Now think that through for a moment, the King of Creation, the very author of |
| 1:08.5 | our salvation, has chosen us. Do you remember those days on the playground when the kids would divide up into teams to play some kind of game? |
| 1:19.0 | And the cool kids usually were the leaders of the team and they got to pick who was going to be on their team and they would take turns doing so. |
| 1:26.8 | Do you remember how it felt to be chosen? |
| 1:31.5 | And do you remember how it felt not to be chosen until the very end of the selection? |
| 1:38.8 | You see that's what we're talking about. |
| 1:41.0 | Jesus made a decision to choose us. And it's as if we were the kid on the |
| 1:48.6 | field with the very least amount of athletic ability, the very least amount of reasons for us to be |
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