The Day Is Approaching
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we conclude our week on living for heaven, today we’ll explore the return of Christ and what that means for us. How can you be best prepared for the return of Jesus? What does God expect of you as his child? May your heart only grow in anticipation and joy at the thought of his return after today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 24:36. Today's worship is You Are My One Thing by Bethel Music.
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Thanks so much for listening to the last podcast in our week long focus on living for heaven.
Before we go, I want to ask you to take just a moment and assess your emotions. Does the idea of Jesus returning bring you peace or fear? Does it bring you hope or despair? There’s no wrong answer. God wants to meet you wherever you are today, and guide you to abundant life. With an honest answer in your heart, ask God to reveal more of his goodness in coming back, and to fill your heart with the assurance you need to celebrate what is to come.
And make sure to come back tomorrow, where we’ll begin a new series taking a deeper look at the abundant life God wants to provide for each of us as his children.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As we conclude our week on Living for Heaven, today we'll explore the return of Christ and what it means for us. |
| 0:12.1 | How can you best be prepared for the return of Jesus? What does God expect of you as his child? |
| 0:18.6 | May your heart only grow in anticipation and joy at the thought of his |
| 0:22.5 | return after today. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Have you ever counted down the days |
| 0:34.0 | until you'll be able to see a good friend? Have you ever felt the anticipation |
| 0:38.3 | and butterflies as the time separating you and a loved one grows smaller? I grew up knowing |
| 0:44.1 | that I should feel this way about heaven, but if I'm honest, I never truly felt the same anticipation |
| 0:49.8 | and longings for the perfect communion with my Savior, as I did for a dear friend. |
| 0:55.0 | I think the idea of an eternal worship service scared me. |
| 0:59.1 | Having to worship God for all eternity sounded far worse than spending time |
| 1:03.3 | hanging out with my best friends here on earth. |
| 1:05.8 | The truth is, I didn't have a true, tangible revelation of God's love for me. |
| 1:12.4 | I didn't have an understanding of the incredible, deep, overwhelming satisfaction I feel when my heart touches God's |
| 1:17.9 | heart in worship. I honestly didn't know the person of Jesus enough to want to spend all of eternity |
| 1:23.7 | with him. Jesus teaches in Matthew 25, 1 through 13, the kingdom of heaven is like |
| 1:29.8 | ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, |
| 1:35.4 | and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the |
| 1:41.7 | wise took flask of oil with their lamps. And the bridegroom |
| 1:45.2 | was delayed. They all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, |
| 1:49.9 | Here's the bridegroom come out to meet him. Then all the virgins rose and trimmed their |
| 1:55.7 | lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going |
| 2:00.4 | out. But the wise answered, since there will not be enough for us, and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves. |
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