THE EXPERIENCE OF HIS PRESENCE
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experience the presence of God. His presence is essential to experiencing and knowing him. And God has made himself so available to us through all that Jesus accomplished. May we simplify what it means to experience God’s presence today and gain a greater sense of confidence to experience the presence of God for ourselves at all times.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 27:4, and today's worship is Ruins by Maverick City feat. Joe L Barnes & Nate Moore.
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There are two things you and I need most: secure connection and unconditional love.
It’s impossible to live with confidence unless we have the sense of self that comes from secure connection with our heavenly Father. And it’s impossible to fully love ourselves and others unless we experience and trust in the unconditional love of the one who gave us life.
We pray our printed devotionals, Closer and Love, help people like you experience the connection and unconditional love available to you in God every morning. Everything changes when we live from a place of secure connection and unending love. Get your copy at supportfirst15.com!
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| 0:00.0 | One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experiencing the presence of God. His presence |
| 0:10.8 | is essential to experiencing and knowing Him, and God has made Himself so available to |
| 0:16.6 | us through all that Jesus accomplished. May we simplify what it means to experience |
| 0:22.5 | God's presence today and get a greater sense of confidence to experience the presence |
| 0:27.9 | of God for ourselves at all times. Welcome to the first-of-team podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | Our verse for today comes from Psalm 27 verse 4. Scripture says, |
| 0:55.0 | One thing I have asked of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the |
| 1:00.5 | house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord into |
| 1:06.6 | inquire in His temple. |
| 1:13.2 | Experiencing the presence of God sounds like such a mystery. It sounds like this wonderful |
| 1:18.9 | but evasive thing that some people get sometimes, but isn't concrete enough to expect |
| 1:25.4 | or place your hope in. We associate God's presence with emotions and music, as if it were |
| 1:32.1 | a breeze so light and momentary. You almost can be sure it happened at all. |
| 1:38.5 | But in reality, God's presence is as simple as being in the presence of a friend or spouse. |
| 1:44.8 | It's as simple and concrete as being around a person except for one simple truth. God |
| 1:50.6 | never leaves. And just as you can be in the same room with a friend and not know it, |
| 1:57.7 | you can live the Christian life apart from experiencing God's nearness. Just as you can |
| 2:03.6 | be sitting right across from a friend and be so busy with technology or your own thoughts |
| 2:09.0 | to even remember that they're there. You can go through life focused on the busyness |
| 2:14.3 | of present circumstances and miss out on the fact that God is closer than your breath. |
| 2:22.9 | But we find hope for encountering the presence of God in some 27th floor. Scripture says, |
| 2:29.6 | one thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the |
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