Receiving God's Word through Action
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
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Summary
As we finish this week of looking at different ways God speaks, today we’re going to look at the role of taking action in hearing God. One of the most powerful ways to discover what God thinks and how God feels is joining him where he is at work in the world around us. So my prayer today is that God opens our eyes and ears to discover fresh parts of how he declares his heart to us, and that we’re empowered to take action today in even more meaningful ways.
Our Scripture for today comes from James 1:23-25, and today's worship is For the One by Brian and Jenn Johnson.
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As believers, we want a real connection with God every day, not just on Sunday. We want the peace and passion that comes from living with God, not for God. But when Monday morning rolls around we’re left thinking:
“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
At First15, we know that meaningful worship isn’t just for Sunday. Every believer should be able to find a daily connection to God with fresh worship created specifically for their weekday.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish this week of looking at different ways God speaks, |
| 0:05.0 | today we're gonna look at the role of taking action and hearing God. |
| 0:12.0 | One of the most powerful ways to discover what God thinks and how God feels |
| 0:18.0 | is joining him where he is at work in the world around us. |
| 0:22.3 | So my prayer today is that God opens our eyes and ears |
| 0:25.9 | to discover fresh parts of how he declares his heart to us, |
| 0:30.1 | and that we're empowered to take action today |
| 0:33.0 | in even more meaningful ways. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our scripture for today comes from James 1, 23 through 25. |
| 0:55.0 | God's word says, |
| 0:58.0 | For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, |
| 1:02.0 | He is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. |
| 1:07.0 | For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one |
| 1:13.6 | who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hero who forgets, |
| 1:20.5 | but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. Faith and action go together. Understanding and works are tethered, |
| 1:33.7 | joined together at salvation through the working of the Holy Spirit and the lives of believers. |
| 1:40.4 | The poor, orphaned, widowed, and lost, don't just need a word from God. |
| 1:47.0 | They need us to act on our beliefs, in love and serve selflessly with the help of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:54.0 | Gathering together as believers to worship is just a part of what God intends for us as his children. If we are to receive all that God |
| 2:04.5 | has for us, if we're to walk in the abundant life God intends, we must resolve to be doers of the |
| 2:12.5 | word. James 1 23 through 25 gives us a window into the life of a believer who never puts action to his faith. |
| 2:24.5 | Scripture says, for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks |
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