Make Time to Experience God
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re going to look at how being wise with our time, and investing it in the place of meeting with God face to face, positions us to more fully experience God’s promises every day. May God open our eyes to see the true value of our time, and how deeply he cherishes when we choose to spend it on him.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 37:7, and today's worship is Landslide by Rita Springer.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to look at how being wise with our time and investing |
| 0:09.2 | in the place of meeting with God face-to-face, positions us to more fully experience God's |
| 0:15.4 | promises every day. |
| 0:17.4 | May God open our eyes to see the true value of our time and how deeply He cherishes us |
| 0:23.9 | when we choose to spend it on Him. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | Our world deems the busiest people to be the most successful. |
| 0:34.7 | We look at the lives of those who work more than the average person and admire their fortitude |
| 0:40.0 | and drive. |
| 0:41.3 | We compare our own lives to those who seem to work more, have more, and do more with their |
| 0:46.1 | time and wish we could have the resolve to be more like them. |
| 0:50.4 | As a result, a society's epidemic of busyness, our spiritual lives are suffering. |
| 0:56.7 | The Bible gives us a clear depiction of a life of a busy person, in a life of a person |
| 1:02.3 | who made time to sit and experience God. |
| 1:05.6 | Luke 1038-42 says, |
| 1:08.6 | Now, as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. |
| 1:12.1 | A woman named Martha welcomed him into her house, and she had a sister called Mary, who |
| 1:17.3 | sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. |
| 1:21.1 | But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she went up to him and said, |
| 1:25.5 | Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? |
| 1:30.1 | Tell her then to help me. |
| 1:32.3 | But the Lord answered her, Martha Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, |
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