The Longing for Beauty - January 17
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
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Summary
As we continue our week-long focus on 7 longings of the human heart, today we’re going to look at the longing we all share for beauty. God has created beauty all around us, beauty we can see and beauty we can feel. And in a world so inundated with false notions of beauty, today my prayer is that God reveals the purity within this longing that resides within each of our hearts, and his perfect plans to satisfy it.
The titles and main concept for this week are all derived from The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 149:4 (AMP), and today's worship is What A Beautiful Name by Hillsong Worship featuring Brooke Fraser.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue, |
| 0:05.0 | continue, our week-long focus on the seven longings of the human heart. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we're going to look at the longing we all share for beauty. |
| 0:13.7 | God has created beauty all around us. |
| 0:16.8 | Beauty we can see and beauty we can feel. |
| 0:20.4 | In a world so inundated with false notions of beauty. |
| 0:24.0 | Today my prayer is that God reveals the purity within this longing |
| 0:29.0 | that resides within each of our hearts |
| 0:31.0 | and is perfect plans to satisfy it. Welcome to the First of Team |
| 0:36.1 | podcast. Our verse for today comes from Psalm 149 verse for today. |
| 0:50.0 | Our verse from Psalm 149 verse 4. |
| 0:54.7 | Scripture says, for the Lord takes pleasure in his people, |
| 0:59.4 | he will beautify the humble with salvation. |
| 1:05.3 | Beauty is captivating in all its forms. |
| 1:08.8 | From sunsets to mountain tops, flower petals to starry nights. We devote countless hours, years, and even lives to the wonder and |
| 1:19.7 | pursuit of beauty. We write songs and poetry and devotion to that which inspires us with |
| 1:27.4 | its beauty. We spend our blood, sweat, and tears and attempt to discover if we have any beauty within ourselves. |
| 1:37.0 | We are a people marked by a need for beauty, an insatiable longing that can only be satisfied in its creator. |
| 1:48.0 | For a long time I tried to rid myself of the longing for beauty. |
| 1:52.0 | I tried simply not to desire it. I equated this longing |
| 1:57.1 | within me to a pursuit of vanity that seemed only to end in destruction. |
| 2:04.0 | It wasn't until my longing for beauty |
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