Living from Union
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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As we finish up our week on centering our lives around meeting with God, today we’ll discover the beauty of living from union with him. Today may you discover and wonder at how incredibly connected and one with God you already are through Christ. May you live each day aware of and benefitting from that union, and be forever changed. It is my prayer that the reality of Christ’s finished work on the cross sinks into our hearts and minds today, and that our lives are turned upside down as a result.
Our Scripture for today comes from Galatians 2:20, and today's worship is Communion by Bryan McCleery.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish up our week on centering our lives around meeting with God, today we'll discover the beauty of living from union with Him. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, may you discover and wonder at how incredibly connected and one with God you already are through Christ. |
| 0:21.6 | May you live each day aware of and benefiting from that union and be forever changed. |
| 0:28.0 | It's my prayer that the reality of Christ's finished work on the cross |
| 0:32.1 | sinks into our hearts and minds today, |
| 0:35.1 | and that our lives are turned upside down as a result. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | Our verse for today comes from Galatians 2, verse 20. |
| 0:58.5 | Scripture says, I have been crucified with Christ. |
| 1:02.7 | It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. |
| 1:08.0 | In the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me |
| 1:14.2 | and gave himself for me. One of the greatest scandals of the Christian faith is that God himself, |
| 1:24.5 | and all His holiness and love, would dwell in the heart of man. |
| 1:30.3 | You and I have been brought into union with God by the blood of Jesus. |
| 1:36.3 | Nothing can separate us from Him any longer. |
| 1:40.3 | He is closer than our breath. |
| 1:42.3 | He is more real than the very ground beneath our feet. |
| 1:47.9 | The New Testament is filled with truth about our union with God. Galatians 220 says, |
| 1:54.7 | I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. |
| 2:01.6 | In the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. |
| 2:09.6 | 1 Corinthians 6, 19 through 20 says, |
| 2:13.6 | Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? |
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