Passionate Pursuit
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week on living an abundant life, today we’ll explore the topic of pursing Jesus passionately in our daily lives. As we discussed the past couple days, abundant life is a gift, but doesn’t mean it comes without a choice on our part to receive. Open your heart to the Father today, and allow your mind to be renewed to the good life he has for you.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 27:8, and today's worship is Simple Pursuit by Passion ft. Melodie Malone.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on living in abundant life, today we'll explore the topic of pursuing Jesus passionately in our daily lives. |
| 0:13.0 | As we discussed the past couple days, abundant life is a gift, but it doesn't mean that it comes without a choice on our part to receive. |
| 0:22.7 | Open your heart to the Father today and allow your mind to be renewed to the good life |
| 0:28.1 | that he has for you. Welcome Psalm 27, verse 8. |
| 0:47.3 | Scripture says, you have said, seek my face. |
| 0:51.4 | My heart says to you, your face, Lord, do I seek? |
| 0:59.5 | The key to abundant life here on earth is the passionate pursuit of Jesus. |
| 1:05.9 | I doubt there will be a single believer who ever reads these words that will doubt that statement. But I also know |
| 1:13.3 | that we often fail to truly believe that statement in our hearts. If we truly believed that |
| 1:19.7 | the key to abundant life was passionately pursuing Jesus, most of our lives would look drastically |
| 1:26.1 | different. My life would look drastically different. |
| 1:30.6 | If we truly believed that passionately pursuing Jesus would bring us an abundant life, |
| 1:36.4 | the way we spent our time would drastically change. |
| 1:40.4 | We would choose pursuing the presence of God over entertainment more often. |
| 1:45.2 | We'd structure most of our worship services differently. |
| 1:48.8 | We'd cease working for the opinion of man and start living for the good pleasure of our creator. |
| 1:55.5 | And our lives would look simpler, more joyful, more peaceful, and more like the life of Jesus. |
| 2:05.5 | The good news for you and me today is that there is grace for us. |
| 2:10.6 | Isaiah 55-637 says, |
| 2:13.4 | Seek the Lord while he may be found. |
| 2:16.1 | Call upon him while he is near. |
| 2:18.3 | Let the wicked forsake His way, and let the unrighteous man his thoughts. |
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