The Depth of God's Love for Us
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
As we end our week on Jesus’s High Priestly prayer, today we’ll dive into his desire for us to know the Father’s great love. Knowing the love of God for us is essential to healthy Christian living. God’s love is fundamental to our identity as his children and the sacrifice of Jesus. If we aren’t rooted and grounded in the unconditional love of God, we will be like untethered buoys being tossed about in the sea. It may seem elementary that God loves you, but I’d encourage you to open your heart afresh to this reality, that God could reveal his love to you in a real and new way today.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:25-26, and today's worship is Your Love Never Fails Me by First15 Worship feat. Ryan Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | As we end our week on Jesus' high priestly prayer, |
| 0:07.0 | today we'll dive into his desire for us to know the Father's great love. |
| 0:12.0 | Knowing the love of God for us is essential to healthy Christian living. |
| 0:17.0 | God's love is fundamental to our identity as his children and the sacrifice of Jesus. |
| 0:22.6 | If we are rooted and grounded in the unconditional love of God, |
| 0:26.6 | we will be like untethered buoys being tossed about in the sea. |
| 0:30.6 | It may seem elementary that God loves you, |
| 0:33.6 | but I'd encourage you to open your heart afresh to this reality, that God could |
| 0:39.1 | reveal his love to you in a real and new way today. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our worship today comes from 1 John 416. |
| 1:02.2 | Scripture says, so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. |
| 1:08.2 | God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him. |
| 1:17.6 | There is no force more powerful than the love our Heavenly Father has for us, his children. |
| 1:24.6 | His love can move mountains, stop the roaring seas, heal broken bones and wounded hearts, |
| 1:31.5 | transform lives, and set free those held captive by sin and shame. So great is his love for you |
| 1:39.2 | and me that he sent his only son to die, that we might live through him. |
| 1:54.0 | And in John 17, 25 through 26, Jesus makes an unfathomable statement about how great the depth of God's love is for us. |
| 2:02.3 | O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. |
| 2:06.8 | I may know to them your name and will continue to make it known, |
| 2:12.8 | that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. |
| 2:19.3 | Do you know that God loves you the way that He loves Jesus? His heart is full of affection for you. |
| 2:22.3 | Jesus always prays perfectly in line with the will of the Father because they are one. |
| 2:28.3 | So when Jesus prays for God to love us with the same love he has been given. His prayer is in perfect alignment |
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