The Desire for Greatness
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today as we continue our series looking at the desires of every heart, we’re going to take time to recognize and satisfy our desire to be great. The desire to be great within the heart of man has produced tremendous and terrible things. It’s produced peace and war, advancement and destruction. And as we look at this desire today, I pray that God reveals the purity and power of it as well as his plans to satisfy it moment by moment, day by day.
The main concept for this week is derived from The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 2:9, and today's worship is Firelight by Brother Isaiah.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, as we continue our series looking at seven longings of the human heart, |
| 0:09.3 | we're going to take time to recognize and satisfy our longing for greatness. |
| 0:14.4 | The longing for greatness within the heart of man has produced tremendous and terrible things. |
| 0:19.2 | It's produced peace and war, advancement, and destruction. |
| 0:22.7 | And as we look at this longing today, I pray that God reveals the purity and power of it |
| 0:27.6 | as well as his plans to satisfy it moment by moment, day by day. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | As children, we dream of a life of adventure and impact. |
| 0:44.6 | We pretend to be astronauts adventuring into the unknown, police officers serving and seeking |
| 0:49.6 | justice, or even a king, rightly deserving respect from all in our kingdom. No child ever dreams of doing something mundane or meaningless. |
| 0:58.0 | But as we grow older, we accept reality, |
| 1:01.0 | that few ever attain what society deems the most respected and honorable professions. |
| 1:07.0 | We settle into mediocrity and work to attain greatness in whatever ways we can. |
| 1:12.6 | We give our lives to a business, a social circle, or even a church position, all an attempt |
| 1:18.6 | to fulfill our need to do something or be something great. |
| 1:21.6 | The truth is that our longing for greatness will never be satisfied until we surrender our concept of greatness to the truth |
| 1:28.8 | of Scripture. Jesus tells us, whoever humbles himself is the greatest in the kingdom |
| 1:34.1 | of heaven. And Matthew 2026 says, whoever would be great among you must be your servant. |
| 1:41.5 | You have a heavenly father who longs to make you great in his sight. He has a plan |
| 1:46.1 | for you filled with eternal reward, significance and satisfaction. But it will cost you everything. His |
| 1:53.4 | plan is exactly opposite of the worlds. To be eternally great is to lay down your life, stop |
| 1:59.7 | seeking greatness in the world's |
| 2:01.2 | eyes, and give your heart entirely to the service and plans of your Heavenly Father. |
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