Unity in Our God
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week on Jesus’s High Priestly prayer, today we’ll explore God’s desire to see his people unified. Why would this be important to him? What good could be in unity for us and others? What is Jesus trying to communicate to the world through us? May our hearts be open to the answers we discover today as we take a deeper dive.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:10-11, and today's worship is This Is The Kingdom by Elevation Worship (feat. Pat Barrett).
Thanks for listening to today’s podcast on the unity available to us in God.
Whenever conflict arises today, remember that God has a perfect plan to lead you into unity with others around you. Take a moment, if you can’t see the path to unity, and ask him to illuminate it for you. A wonderful prayer you can pray is, God help me to see where you’re at work in the lives of others around me. Help me to see you in others.”
May God give you a profound sense of connection with your brothers and sisters in the faith today as you seek to live in unity as Jesus’ prayed. Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on Jesus' high priestly prayer, today we'll explore God's desire to see |
| 0:11.1 | his people unifying. Why would this be important to him? What good could be in unity for us and others? |
| 0:18.7 | What is Jesus trying to communicate to the world through us? May our hearts |
| 0:23.2 | be open to the answers we discover today as we take a deeper dive. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | We were created for unity with our fellow believers. It's in the pursuit of unity that the bonds |
| 0:36.5 | of selfishness and pride are often broken. It's in the surrender of unity that the bonds of selfishness and pride are often broken. |
| 0:39.2 | It's in the surrender of opinions and selfish ambition that we find the abundant life that comes |
| 0:44.2 | through sacrificial living. |
| 0:46.2 | And most importantly, it's in unity that Jesus is most glorified. |
| 0:50.7 | Jesus says in John 17, 10 and 11, |
| 0:53.7 | All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. |
| 0:59.0 | And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. |
| 1:03.0 | Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. Unity between two humans is only truly possible |
| 1:14.2 | by the working of the Holy Spirit. Apart from God dwelling and transforming man, we will never be able |
| 1:20.2 | to live sacrificially with any level of consistency. It's for that reason that Jesus is so glorified |
| 1:26.8 | through our unity. And it's for that reason that Jesus is so glorified through our unity. And it's for that reason |
| 1:29.7 | that pursuing unity between believers is of the utmost importance. What are we declaring to the |
| 1:36.3 | world when we bicker, slander, and give up on unity with fellow believers? Why would the |
| 1:41.7 | lost want anything to do with a group of eight full judgmental and |
| 1:45.3 | selfish Christians? Christ has charged us with a command to be his hands and feet. He's commanded |
| 1:51.4 | us to make disciples, and our ministry is nothing without love. When we pursue our own pride |
| 1:58.0 | and gain over unity, we are directly disobeying the commandments |
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