Transformation through Experience
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In the middle of our week on transformation, we’re going to take time today to discover how God longs to transform us through experience. Every experience we have in life shapes us in some way. And experiencing God is no different. When we make space to truly experience God, he molds and fashions us into who we were created to be in marvelous ways. May God stir up our faith and our passion to be transformed in his presence right now.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 3:18, and today's worship is Real Thing by Vertical Worship feat. Sean Curran
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| 0:00.0 | In the middle of our week on transformation, we're going to take time today to discover how God longs to transform us through experience. |
| 0:13.0 | Every experience we have in life shapes us in some way. |
| 0:17.0 | An experiencing God is no different. |
| 0:19.0 | When we make space to truly experience God, |
| 0:22.6 | he molds and fashions us into who we are created to be in marvelous ways. May God stir up |
| 0:28.5 | our faith and our passion to be transformed in his presence right now. Welcome to the |
| 0:34.1 | First 15 podcast. No Christian practice can take the place of experiencing God. |
| 0:42.3 | It's an experiencing God that we begin to live in response to the unconditional, unfathomable depths of God's love. |
| 0:51.3 | It's an experiencing God that we learn to discern and trust his perfect pleasing |
| 0:56.1 | will. And it's an experiencing God that our hearts are transformed into powerful reflections |
| 1:02.5 | of his wonderful character. Second Corinthians 318 says, and we all with unveiled face |
| 1:10.2 | beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed |
| 1:13.7 | into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord, who is the |
| 1:20.6 | spirit. When we see God face to face, everything changes. You can't see God and stay the same. |
| 1:30.2 | Encountering him always requires something from us. Experiencing his holiness always calls us to be holy as he is holy. Experiencing his love |
| 1:37.9 | always calls to love because he has first loved us. And experiencing his heart for transformation |
| 1:44.3 | always calls us to surrender our lives to him |
| 1:47.2 | as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing. |
| 1:51.5 | In Isaiah 6, 1 through 6, |
| 1:54.9 | Isaiah's encounter with a living God speaks to the truth of transformation through experience. |
| 2:00.7 | In response to seeing the Lord |
| 2:02.5 | sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and hearing the seraphim calling to one another, |
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