The Blessing of Spiritual Poverty
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A cornerstone to living poor in spirit is living with an acknowledgment of our need for God. We must learn to tap into our weakness and lean on Jesus in all things if we want to experience the blessing of God’s grace. The beauty of God’s way is that it will always turn the ways of our world on its head. To be strong you must become weak. To be rich, you must be poor. To find, you must lose.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 57:15, and today's worship is New Wine by Hillsong Worship feat. Brooke Ligertwood.
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| 0:00.0 | A cornerstone to living poor in spirit is living with an acknowledgement of our need for God. |
| 0:10.0 | We must learn to tap into our weakness and lean on Jesus in all things if we want to experience the blessing of God's grace. |
| 0:18.0 | The beauty of God's way is that it will always turn the ways of our world |
| 0:22.4 | on its head. To be strong, you must become weak. To be rich, you must be poor. To find, you must |
| 0:30.3 | lose. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today. |
| 0:44.3 | Our verse for today comes from Isaiah 57, verse 15. |
| 0:49.3 | Scripture says, I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, |
| 0:58.2 | to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. |
| 1:05.2 | To be rich in spirit based on our own accomplishments is to bear the weight of our own spiritual growth. |
| 1:12.7 | In comparison, when we acknowledge our spiritual poverty before God, |
| 1:17.3 | thereby contributing all that we do and are to His limitless grace, |
| 1:21.9 | the weight of our spirituality is lifted off and placed squarely on the shoulders of Jesus where it belongs. To be spiritually |
| 1:30.9 | poor is to be incredibly blessed. I've spent so much of my Christian life seeking to do good. |
| 1:39.3 | I've gone to church, Bible studies, small groups, accountability groups, and have played in worship bands. |
| 1:46.0 | I've gone on mission trips, fed the homeless, served at food pantries, given up sleep, |
| 1:53.0 | spent nights out to invest in others, and even dedicated my career to God. |
| 1:58.0 | But it seems like with every good work I was doing, I had to continually look to the |
| 2:03.8 | next. I couldn't take time to rest or enjoy God because the weight of my righteousness and the |
| 2:10.7 | fruit of my life rested solely on my own shoulders. I didn't know how to live by grace, so instead I filled every waking |
| 2:19.9 | moment with a fight to do all I could on my own. And now it's not that any of those works were |
| 2:26.9 | inherently bad. In fact, I'm continuing to do most of those things today. The difference is found |
| 2:33.2 | in John 15, 5 through 9, where Jesus says, |
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