Start Your Day with the Best Thing
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Why should we spend time alone with God? Why is meeting with God in the secret place so important? Until we gain an understanding of the immense value and availability of encountering God, we will never consistently engage in this foundational, vital practice. As we discover God’s heart to meet with us in order that we might experience the depths of his love, I pray that your life would be marked by a new grace to consistently and powerfully encounter the living God.
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| 0:00.0 | Why should we spend time alone with God? |
| 0:07.0 | Why is meeting with God in the secret place so important? |
| 0:12.0 | Until we gain an understanding of the immense value and availability of encountering God, |
| 0:19.0 | we will never consistently engage in this foundational vital practice. |
| 0:25.1 | As we discover God's heart to meet with us in order that we might experience the depths of |
| 0:31.5 | His love, I pray that your life would be marked by a new grace to consistently and powerfully encounter the living |
| 0:40.6 | God. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our verse for today. |
| 1:17.6 | Our verse for today comes from Psalm 31 verse 19. |
| 1:19.4 | Scripture says, |
| 1:23.6 | Oh, how abundant is your goodness, |
| 1:28.0 | which you have stored up for those who fear you. |
| 1:35.5 | As Christians, we know we are supposed to start our day off with God. |
| 1:42.6 | If you have been a believer for any length of time, you have likely been encouraged by a pastor, |
| 1:48.0 | teacher, mentor, or friend to spend time every morning in God's presence. However, many of us have never been told why God wants us to spend time |
| 1:55.5 | with him in the morning. We've never discovered all God longs to do in the first moments of our days. |
| 2:04.0 | We just carry the weight of knowing we should spend time alone with God. |
| 2:10.1 | We spent last week in verse 15 going over how to practically spend time with God. |
| 2:15.7 | This week, we're going to talk about the why. Why should you spend time with God. This week, we're going to talk about the why. |
| 2:19.5 | Why should you spend time with God every morning? |
| 2:25.3 | God longs for your day to begin with the absolute best thing, |
| 2:31.0 | and the best thing is His presence. |
| 2:37.9 | If encountering God's presence is the best part of your day, then you already know the impact it is made on you. I'm glad you're using the tool of |
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