The Longing to be Wholehearted - January 20
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🗓️ 20 January 2019
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Summary
In today’s podcast, we’re going to explore the longing we all share to be wholehearted. Everyone of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to something that truly matters. And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way, a way he’s perfectly wired each of us for. May each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today.
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 Mark 12:30, and today's worship is Endless Alleluia by Cory Asbury.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to explore the longing we all share to be |
| 0:09.2 | wholehearted. Every one of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to something that truly matters. |
| 0:18.0 | And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way in a way that we're perfectly |
| 0:26.0 | wired for. |
| 0:27.0 | Me each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today. Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Mark 12, verse |
| 0:45.0 | 30. |
| 0:49.2 | Scripture says, |
| 0:50.2 | And you shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. |
| 1:00.0 | Wholehearted devotion, love, and purpose captivate us. |
| 1:07.0 | As a culture, we cling to stories like Romeo and Juliet, |
| 1:11.0 | Gone with the wind, Don Quixote, the Count of Monte Cristo and Le Miserab for the wholehearted actions of the characters. |
| 1:20.3 | These stories evoke within each of us a desire to be equally wholehearted in our own lives. |
| 1:27.0 | We long to give ourselves completely to something or someone that our lives might have true purpose. |
| 1:35.0 | Humanity is captivated by whole-heartedness because we were created for it. |
| 1:41.0 | God created us with a longing to be wholehearted, that he might satisfy that longing |
| 1:47.6 | with his plans. |
| 1:49.8 | The Bible is the ultimate story of wholeheartedness. It's the story of God coming down to us and |
| 1:56.9 | giving himself completely for us to the point of death. Defeating death, he now desires to use us as wholehearted children, to lead the whole world to salvation and freedom that our lives would impact eternity. |
| 2:17.1 | You were made to be wholehearted, but oftentimes church is the last place you think of as passionate and wholehearted. So often we in vocational ministry are scared to lose our volunteers |
| 2:26.0 | in congregation by asking too much of them. So we never present them with an opportunity |
| 2:32.1 | to live as passionately as God intends. |
| 2:36.1 | The truth is that God wants all of you. |
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