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 in seeking Him.

As you are 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.

Thank you. around his presence. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 139, verses 17 through 18.

Scripture says,

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God.

How vast is the sum of them?

If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake and I am still with you.

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 constantly, 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 into 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 moves 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.

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