Understanding
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week as we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we’ll look today at the biblical concept of understanding and how it relates to experiencing God. May God shift your perspective today and bring you into greater fullness of life in your relationship with him. What’s beautiful about God is that no matter where you’re at in your walk with him, there is always more.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 145:18, and today's worship is Yes I Will by Vertical Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, as we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we'll look today at the biblical concept of understanding and how it relates to experiencing God. |
| 0:15.0 | May God shift your perspective today and bring you into a greater fullness of life in your relationship with him. |
| 0:22.8 | What's beautiful about God is that no matter where you're at in your walk with him, there is |
| 0:27.7 | always more. Welcome to the first of team podcast. The verse for today comes from Psalms 1.45, verse 18. |
| 0:50.8 | Scripture says, |
| 0:52.4 | The Lord is near to all who call on Him, |
| 0:56.0 | to all who call on Him in truth. |
| 0:59.0 | For most believers, understanding and experience seem to be mutually exclusive. |
| 1:07.0 | Theology and spirituality are believed to be separate, and while one might help the |
| 1:14.0 | other, that they don't belong together as one wholehearted pursuit of God. But the truth is that |
| 1:21.0 | understanding and experience couldn't be more intertwined. In fact, one does not truly exist without the other. To experience God |
| 1:31.1 | is to have understanding. To understand God is to experience. It's for this reason, Jesus said in |
| 1:39.2 | John 4, 23 through 24, but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshippers will worship the |
| 1:47.9 | Father in Spirit and Truth. For the Father is seeking such people to worship Him. God is |
| 1:55.6 | Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. |
| 2:03.0 | God longs for us to know Him and spirit and truth and experience and understanding. |
| 2:09.5 | I can't truly know someone by just reading a book about them. |
| 2:14.2 | I can't say that I know C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther, or Dietrich Bonhofer, just because I've |
| 2:20.1 | read a biography or some of their works. And it's the same with God. Scripture is intended to give |
| 2:26.9 | us an understanding about God and guide us into a true relationship with Him. Its words are intended |
| 2:33.7 | to be an avenue to the author who wrote them. |
| 2:37.3 | And if we will adopt a perspective of gaining as much understanding about our Heavenly Father |
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