Passionate Pursuit

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As we continue our week on living an abundant life, today we’ll explore the topic of pursuing 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 Since Your Love by United Pursuit (ft Brandon Hampton)

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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
0:10.0	Jesus passionately in our daily lives. As we discussed the past couple of days, abundant life is a gift,
0:17.2	but it doesn't mean it comes without a choice on our part to receive.
0:22.2	Open your heart to the Father today and allow your mind to be renewed to the good life
0:26.9	he has for you. Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
0:32.9	The key to abundant life here on earth is the passionate pursuit of Jesus. I doubt there will be a single
0:39.0	believer who ever hears these words and doubt that statement. But I also know that we often fail
0:45.9	to truly believe that statement in our hearts. If we truly believe that the key to abundant life
0:51.4	was passionately pursuing Jesus, most of our lives would look drastically
0:55.9	different. My life would look drastically different. If we truly believed that passionately pursuing
1:02.1	Jesus would bring us abundant life, the way we spend our time would drastically change. We would
1:07.9	choose pursuing the presence of God over entertainment more often. We would structure most of our worship services differently. We would choose pursuing the presence of God over entertainment more often. We would
1:11.6	structure most of our worship services differently. We would cease working for the opinion of man
1:16.9	and start living for the good pleasure of our creator. And our lives would look simpler,
1:22.4	more joyful, more peaceful, and more like the life of Jesus. The good news for you and me is that there is grace for us today.
1:30.9	Isaiah 55, 6 and 7 says, seek the Lord while he may be found.
1:35.8	Call upon him while he is near.
1:37.9	Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
1:42.1	Let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion
1:45.5	on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. It's time for the people of God to wake
1:52.0	up to the true purpose for our lives. It's time that we stop seeking the things of the world
1:56.8	and give our lives to the total and wholehearted pursuit of Jesus. And there is grace from on high that God longs to give us today to do so.
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