Seasons with God
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
As this year comes to a close, it’s vital that we take time to both reflect on what God has done and allow him to prepare us for what’s to come. A new year marks a fresh opportunity to center our lives around the goodness of God. I pray that as you begin looking toward what is to come you will make space to gain God’s perspective, ground your hopes and pursuits on his grace, and celebrate all that God has done and is doing. May your time with God this week be filled with the loving presence of your heavenly Father.
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| 0:00.0 | As this year comes to a close, it's vital that we take time to both reflect on what God has done and allow him to prepare us for what's to come. |
| 0:16.0 | A new year marks a fresh opportunity to center our lives around the goodness of God. I pray that as you |
| 0:25.2 | begin looking toward what is to come, you will make space to gain God's perspective, ground your |
| 0:31.9 | hopes and pursuits on His grace, and celebrate all that God has done and is doing. |
| 0:39.3 | May your time with God this week be filled with the loving presence of your Heavenly Father. |
| 0:46.1 | Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 3, verse 1. |
| 1:17.2 | Scripture says, for everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. |
| 1:28.3 | The seasons of the year, created by the powerful hands of our Heavenly Father, |
| 1:35.3 | speak of the need to slow down, stop, and reflect. |
| 1:41.3 | Times of reflection create space for God's spirit to speak, helping us remember what he has done, |
| 1:49.0 | making us aware of what he is doing, and stirring our hearts for what he wants to do next. |
| 1:58.0 | God loves to use a change in season season to remind us to center our lives around his pervasive |
| 2:05.9 | works. Whether it be a change in jobs, whether moving or the approaching of a new year, it's |
| 2:15.4 | crucial that we make space for God to speak to us and prepare us for the |
| 2:21.0 | wonderful things he has planned. Ecclesiastes 3 verses 1 through 5 illustrates this principle |
| 2:29.7 | in saying, for everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven, a time to be |
| 2:38.4 | born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted, a time to kill |
| 2:47.7 | and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up. |
| 2:54.1 | A time to weep and a time to laugh. |
| 2:57.6 | A time to mourn and a time to dance. |
| 3:01.9 | A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. |
| 3:15.6 | The best place to begin reflection is in remembering. I don't know whether this year was one |
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