As we focus this week on vision and boundaries, today we'll explore what it looks like to have the right priorities in place in our relationship with God.

Many of us live as though God has a long list of expectations for us to meet.

Today, may God's priorities for us become our own, and may we set the necessary boundaries in place

to keep our priorities in the correct order.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. podcast.

Our verse of today comes from John 15,

our verse of today comes from John 15, verse 4.

Scripture says, abide in me and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,

unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

You were created to spend time with God.

Just as God's chief desire is for relationship with you. Your chief purpose in life is relationship with

him. There is no life apart from him. Scripture says in Act 1728,

in him we live and move and have our being.

As we seek to be a people of vision and boundaries,

let's begin by looking at a passage of scripture

in which Jesus tells us the one thing that's necessary.

Luke 10 38 through 42 says, now as they went on their way Jesus entered a village and a woman

named Martha welcomed him into her house as she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

But Martha was distracted with much serving.

And she went up to him and said,

Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?

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