The Desire to be Passionate
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re going to explore the desire we all share to be passionate. Everyone of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to something that truly matters. And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way, a way he’s perfectly wired each of us for. May each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today.
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 Mark 12:30, and today's worship is Love You More by Harvest Bashta.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to explore the longing we all share to be wholehearted. |
| 0:10.7 | Every one of us desires to give our lives to something. Our passion is something that truly matters. |
| 0:17.7 | And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way, |
| 0:23.4 | a way he's perfectly wired each of us for. |
| 0:26.9 | May each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Wholehearted devotion, love, and purpose captivate us. As a culture, we cling to stories |
| 0:41.8 | like Romeo and Juliet, Gone with the Wind, Don Quixote, the Count of Monte Cristo, and |
| 0:47.5 | the Miserables for the wholehearted actions of the characters. These stories evoke within each of us |
| 0:54.0 | a desire to be equally wholehearted |
| 0:56.1 | in our own lives. We long to give ourselves completely to something or someone that our lives |
| 1:02.6 | might have true purpose. Humanity is captivated by wholeheartedness because we are created for it. |
| 1:09.8 | God created us with a longing to be wholehearted |
| 1:12.4 | that he might satisfy that longing with his plans. The Bible itself is the ultimate story |
| 1:18.5 | of wholeheartedness. It's a story of God coming down to us and giving himself completely for us |
| 1:24.5 | to the point of death. Defeating death, he now desires to use us as wholehearted |
| 1:30.0 | children to lead the whole world to salvation and freedom that our lives would impact eternity. |
| 1:36.9 | You were made to be wholehearted, but oftentimes church is the last place you think of as passionate |
| 1:43.2 | and wholehearted. So often we in vocational |
| 1:46.7 | ministry are scared to lose our volunteers in congregation by asking too much of them. So we never |
| 1:52.8 | present them with an opportunity to live as passionately as God intends. The truth is that God |
| 1:58.9 | wants all of you. He's calling you to a life of wholehearted, |
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