Love-Based Obedience
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our Scripture for today comes from John 14:21, and today's worship is Child of Love by We The Kingdom.
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Faith doesn’t happen on its own. It’s a byproduct of time spent experiencing the faithfulness of our God. It’s a gift given to us by the Giver of good gifts, himself.
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| 0:00.0 | God is the perfect parent. |
| 0:07.1 | He's unlike anyone we've ever known, and his love is unlike anything we've experienced |
| 0:11.8 | before. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine knowing that your parent loved you perfectly and that their intentions and motives |
| 0:18.6 | behind giving you direction was literally perfectly loving. |
| 0:23.2 | That's how God is with us. |
| 0:25.4 | His wisdom and direction is something that we can trust implicitly because he can |
| 0:29.9 | trust his heart toward us, and that truth makes obedience a joy. |
| 0:35.7 | As we explore love-based obedience today, may your heart be open to the goodness of your |
| 0:41.0 | loving Father. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | Our verse for today can be found in John 14, 21, which reads, |
| 1:03.3 | Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me, and he who loves me |
| 1:10.7 | will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. |
| 1:20.5 | For much of my life, I feared the thought of obedience, especially to the Almighty, all |
| 1:26.3 | knowing, and all powerful Creator of the universe. |
| 1:30.6 | I couldn't seem to find a way to consistently choose him over myself. |
| 1:36.1 | I couldn't seem to be able to live for his affections over those of the world. |
| 1:42.0 | As hard as I would try in various seasons, I just couldn't be obedient. |
| 1:48.7 | What I didn't realize about God's command to be obedient was the process by which I |
| 1:53.8 | could grow in obedience. |
| 1:56.6 | God will take our obedience however he can get it because he wants us to enjoy the incredible |
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