As we continue our week on centering our lives around meeting with God, today we'll explore how this is always preceded by the longing of God to meet with you.

God's affections for us are always meant to be our starting place and seeking Him.

As you're reminded today of God's great love and desire for you,

may your heart be stirred with fervor to seek him and center your life around his presence.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

I used to view my time spent in secret with my Heavenly Father

as something for which I needed to drum up desire.

I pictured God waiting for me in a room, ready to bless me for sure, but I felt the weight

of choosing Him was all on my shoulders. The truth of God's heart is far from my previous

misconceptions. We serve a God who consistently, sweetly, and powerfully pursues us.

Revelation 320 says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the

door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he with me. God is knocking on the door of your

heart right now. With every gentle fall breeze that move sweetly across your face,

with every beautiful sunrise, with every breathtaking star in the sky,

God is declaring his love for you.

God pursues us in any and every way he can.

The greatest desire of his heart is for communion with His people.

It's in knowing and receiving His overwhelming affections for us that our hearts will be stirred

to meet with Him.

It's in taking time to notice his consistent pursuit of us that we will naturally begin

to center our lives around meeting with our Heavenly Father.

You see, the reason we should center our lives around meeting with God is Father. You see, the reason we should center

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