Seeking Transformation
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today we begin a brand new week of devotionals, creating space every day for God to transform us more and more into his likeness. And in today’s devotional, we’re starting with a broader view, looking at what it means to truly seek transformation. May God do a mighty work in our hearts this week as we make room for his presence every day.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 51:10, and today's worship is Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we begin a brand new week of devotionals, creating space every day for God to transform us more and more into his likeness. And in today's devotional, we're starting with a broader view, looking at what it means to truly seek transformation. May God do a mighty |
| 0:23.6 | work in our hearts this week, as we make room for his presence every day. Welcome to the |
| 0:30.1 | First of Team podcast. Our verse for today comes from Psalm 51, verse 10. |
| 0:52.4 | Scripture says, |
| 1:00.4 | Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. |
| 1:08.6 | As humans burdened and suffering from both our sins and the fallen nature of the world around us. We are in desperate need of transformation. |
| 1:14.1 | We're in desperate need of help from a God who has the power to not just clean us up on the |
| 1:19.5 | outside, but to transform us at the core of who we are. But this God doesn't force transformation on us. He works when we make space for him |
| 1:31.8 | to do so. If we're going to experience the freedom, joy, and purpose that can only come from the |
| 1:39.1 | inner working of the Holy Spirit, we must be those who seek transformation. Psalm 51, 10 through 12 says, |
| 1:49.9 | create me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your |
| 1:57.1 | presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, |
| 2:04.7 | and uphold me with a willing spirit. Here in Psalm 51, David exemplifies the heart of one who seeks |
| 2:14.3 | transformation. He models for us a posture of humility |
| 2:18.7 | that will lead to powerful encounters |
| 2:21.2 | with God's transformative love. |
| 2:24.3 | He doesn't sit back and merely live with that which plagues him, |
| 2:28.6 | but goes to God with his problems that he might be changed. |
| 2:38.9 | David begins as we all shed, and asking for God to do a mighty work in his heart. And in this act of asking God to create in him a clean heart, David opens himself up |
| 2:47.3 | to receive the powerful work of the Holy Spirit. |
| 2:58.6 | To receive transformation from God, we have to come before him humbly and honestly that he might have space to do the impossible in our lives. |
| 3:04.1 | Often, we spend a majority of our efforts trying to convince others and ourselves that we don't need help. |
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