Made for Relationship
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 6 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In our second devotional seeking to discover God’s pursuit of our hearts, today we’re going to spend time looking at our true purpose, why you and I were created. Every day, every moment, is an opportunity to choose the purpose for which we’re living. But only living in line with our true purpose has the power the produce an abundant life. May God reveal his purpose behind our creation today, and may he make central to our lives his pursuit and love in a fresh way.
Our Scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 24:7, and today's worship is Since Your Love by United Pursuit.
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| 0:00.0 | In our second devotional, seeking to discover God's pursuit of our hearts, today we're |
| 0:10.5 | going to spend time looking at our true purpose while you and I were created. Every day, every |
| 0:18.0 | moment is an opportunity to choose the purpose for which we're living. |
| 0:23.6 | But only living in line with our true purpose has the power to produce an abundant life. |
| 0:29.6 | May God reveal His purpose behind our creation today. |
| 0:34.6 | And may He make central to our lives his pursuit and love in a fresh way today. And may he make central to our lives, his pursuit and love in a fresh way today. Welcome to the |
| 0:42.2 | First of Teen podcast. Our verse for today, our verse for today comes from Jeremiah 24, verse 7, where Scripture says, |
| 1:03.0 | I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return |
| 1:14.1 | to me with their whole heart. |
| 1:19.6 | You were made for relationship with our Heavenly Father. |
| 1:24.0 | We were made to know and be known by Him, And that one fact is meant to define both our identity and our actions. |
| 1:33.5 | It's meant to lay the foundation on which we live, think, feel, and do. |
| 1:40.5 | And it's only in living with relationship with God as our chief and central pursuit, that our lives reflect his unceasing love and devotion. |
| 1:52.0 | For a long time, I've lived with wrong things at the center of my life. I've allowed earthly success, admiration of others, identity in my works, and an image |
| 2:05.5 | of perfection to be the things that drove me moment by moment. And in those pursuits, I only found |
| 2:13.6 | disappointment, exhaustion, and unfulfilled longings. Even within the context of Christianity, |
| 2:22.3 | there's temptation to be led by that which is worldly, that which will never satisfy. But in God, |
| 2:30.6 | there's another way. In the love of a grace-filled Heavenly Father, |
| 2:36.2 | we can cease striving and start enjoying life |
| 2:39.8 | founded on relationship with our Creator. |
| 2:43.9 | Jeremiah 24-7 says, |
| 2:46.4 | I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, |
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