The Fullness of Joy
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In our third day of looking at Joy, we’re going to take time today to look at David’s statement in Psalm 16:11, where he describes a “fullness of joy.”
There is a greater fullness of life available to you and in me in God that most of us will ever experience. To experience more of God almost always requires laying down more of the things of the world. But if we, today, will give a greater measure of our hearts over to God, we’ll find greater joy than we could have imagined experiencing this side of heaven.
May your heart be filled to the fullness today as we experience God together.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 16:11, and today's worship is Fullness by Elevation Worship.
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Thanks for listening to today’s podcast on the fullness of joy. I’m Craig Denison, author of First15.
If you’re looking to go deeper into God’s joy today, I want to encourage you to take some time and worship today, whenever you get a few minutes. Every day on our website, First15.org, you’ll find a song to go along with that day’s devotional. You can click the link in the description below to head straight to a time of worship today.
Have a wonderful rest of your day today, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | In our third day of looking at joy, we're going to take time today to look at David's statement in Psalm 1611, where he describes a fullness of joy. |
| 0:15.5 | There is a greater fullness of life available to you and me in God that most of us will ever experience. |
| 0:22.6 | To experience more of God almost always requires laying down more of the things of the world. |
| 0:28.8 | But if we today will give greater measures of our hearts over to God, we'll find greater |
| 0:33.9 | joy than we could have imagined this side of heaven. May your heart be filled today |
| 0:39.3 | as we experience God together. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. By the grace of God, we have a |
| 0:48.4 | beautiful inheritance of eternal and tangible relationship with our Heavenly Father. Psalm 16, 5 and 6 says, |
| 0:56.0 | The Lord is my chosen portion in my cup. You hold my lot. The lions have fallen for me in |
| 1:02.3 | pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. And later in verse 11, David writes, |
| 1:08.6 | You make known to me the path of life. |
| 1:13.5 | In your presence, there is fullness of joy. |
| 1:16.6 | At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. |
| 1:21.0 | God has designed the beautiful inheritance of his presence for us. |
| 1:25.4 | Israel knew what it was to center their gatherings around the presence of God. |
| 1:28.2 | His presence guided them through the wilderness. |
| 1:35.4 | His presence won battles for them. His presence was powerful in the holy of holies. God's presence was the sign that he was with them and for them. And Psalm 1611 tells us that in the presence of God |
| 1:42.6 | there is fullness of joy. Imagine what the fullness of |
| 1:46.3 | joy looks and feels like. What would it be like to have a real encounter with the fullness of |
| 1:52.2 | joy today? In the fullness of joy there is no sorrow, worry, doubt, or fear. In the fullness |
| 1:58.5 | of joy, there is abundant life, peace, freedom, and love. Psalm 43-4 says, |
| 2:05.6 | Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. Consistently encountering the |
| 2:12.4 | presence of our Heavenly Father is the sole source of exceeding joy on this earth. Only in spending time going to |
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