Understanding
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 4 July 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’ll explore how leaning on the Lord for truth and understanding relates to trust. Where do you look for wisdom? God promises us that when we look to him, he will deliver all the wisdom and understanding we need for any circumstance. May you find the understanding you need for your situation today as you learn to trust the Father and lean into him.
Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 3:5, and today's worship is God I Look To You by Bethel Music feat. Francesca Battistelli.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll explore how leaning on the Lord for truth and understanding relates to trust. |
| 0:10.0 | Where do you look for wisdom? |
| 0:12.0 | God promises us that when we look to Him, he will deliver all the wisdom and understanding that we need for any circumstance. May you find the understanding |
| 0:23.0 | that you need for your situation today as you learn to trust the Father and lean into him. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse of today comes from Proverbs 3, verse 5. |
| 0:49.8 | Scripture says, trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. |
| 0:58.8 | True understanding about ourselves, others, and this life only comes through trust in God. |
| 1:07.0 | God alone has perspective and truth. God alone has understanding about what matters, who we are, and what will happen. |
| 1:17.4 | And the good news for you and me today is that our Heavenly Father is absolutely longing to share his understanding. |
| 1:25.9 | God yearns for us to think and see through the lens of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:30.3 | and His Word. Proverbs 3 5 through 8 says, |
| 1:35.4 | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. Be not |
| 1:48.1 | wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh |
| 1:55.3 | and refreshment to your bones. Why is it that when Scripture promises us God's understanding, we still do |
| 2:05.4 | life apart from His wisdom? Why do we look to our own minds and go our own ways when God |
| 2:12.9 | makes His understanding and will so available? You and I are only capable of looking for understanding |
| 2:21.3 | and that which we fully trust. |
| 2:24.3 | If we don't trust that God's wisdom and will |
| 2:27.3 | are truly the best path laid before us, |
| 2:30.3 | we will go our own ways. |
| 2:32.3 | If we don't trust that God's commands |
| 2:35.2 | will actually produce the most abundant life, |
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