Momentum - Learning to Give God What He Wants the Most, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
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Summary
Let me ask you, what does God want most from you? Any ideas? Chip shares how you can not only know what God wants from you, but also how to give it to Him.
Main Points- Abraham's journey shows what God wants most from each of us. - Genesis 12-17, 22
- Abraham’s confidence in God’s promises and God’s character were the secret to His surrender and reward. - Romans 4:20-21; Hebrews 11:6
- Abraham’s life reveals that surrender is the channel through which God’s biggest and best blessings flow. - Romans 12:1; John 12:24-25
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me ask you a question. What does God want most from you? Any ideas? I know for me the |
| 0:08.9 | first several years I was a Christian I didn't have a clue. I mean I didn't know what God wanted. All I knew was I had all these new activities |
| 0:16.0 | going in my life. If you ever wanted to know what God really wants from you and |
| 0:21.0 | how to give it to him stay with me. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:36.0 | And today he's continuing his series, Momentum by explaining why the path to God's greatest blessings for you isn't always direct or painless. |
| 0:44.9 | And to help us better understand what that means, Chip's going to examine the life of |
| 0:48.7 | Abraham, how we walked with God and the ways he experienced God's compassion and forgiveness when he |
| 0:54.4 | messed up. |
| 0:55.4 | So if you're ready, get your notes and Bible out as we join Chip with his talk, learning to |
| 0:59.8 | give God what he wants the most from Genesis chapter 12. |
| 1:05.0 | So what I want to do is I want to jump right in and I want to share with you. |
| 1:08.6 | This was the first, I would call it my first honest adult prayer. |
| 1:13.0 | 18 years old, I shared a little bit about my story and in my little tiny fish bowl |
| 1:18.5 | I had kind of been successful and thought that that would bring happiness and instead I found this huge |
| 1:24.0 | emptiness and I found myself at about 2 a.m. in the morning sitting on my bed looking |
| 1:29.4 | out through a window is one of those starries filled skies and feelings empty and I remember this was |
| 1:35.9 | my prayer God if you exist what do you want from me at this point I didn't know if there was a God or not. |
| 1:45.0 | I had a terrible church experience growing up. |
| 1:47.0 | I didn't meet any Christians that I ever wanted to be like or be around. |
| 1:50.0 | But I thought there's got to be more than setting goals and, quote, |
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