Vision for Others
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week on vision and boundaries, today we’ll explore what it looks like to have vision for loving and serving others well. Is loving people something you do intentionally? Or is something you believe will happen effortlessly as you live your life? Sometimes God is asking us to intentionally discover vision for certain seasons, and is specific about ways we could minister to or bless someone. Today may we learn how to serve people in a healthy, intentional way with good boundaries and vision.
Our Scripture for today comes from Philippians 2:4, and today's worship is Unstoppable God by The War Within.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on vision and boundaries, today we'll explore what it looks like to have a vision for loving and serving others well. |
| 0:14.0 | Is loving people something you do intentionally, or is it something you believe will happen effortlessly as you live your life? |
| 0:22.8 | Sometimes God is asking us to intentionally discover vision for certain seasons, and is specific |
| 0:28.9 | about ways we could minister to or bless someone. Today, may we learn how to serve people in a healthy, |
| 0:35.5 | intentional way with good boundaries and vision. |
| 0:39.5 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:46.6 | One of the greatest joys in life is the gift of serving others. Often in the busyness of work, |
| 0:53.0 | family, and society, we draw boundaries around ourselves so tightly |
| 0:57.2 | that we don't make room to love others well. |
| 1:01.0 | God's desire is to shepherd us to a place of inward abundance, not only that we might live |
| 1:07.0 | in the fullness of life, but also that we would be empowered to give ourselves to others. |
| 1:13.1 | Philippians 2-4-8 says, |
| 1:15.8 | Let each of you look not only to his own interest, but also to the interest of others. |
| 1:21.1 | Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the |
| 1:26.4 | form of God, did not count equality |
| 1:28.8 | with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born |
| 1:35.0 | in the likeness of men, and being found in human form. He humbled himself by becoming obedient |
| 1:40.5 | to the point of death, even death on a cross. In his humble, loving sacrifice, Jesus |
| 1:46.8 | set before us the perfect example of loving others. God might not call all of us to physically |
| 1:52.5 | die for the sake of others, but he absolutely leads us to a lifestyle of dying to self, that we |
| 1:59.0 | might live for the kingdom of God. Loving others always requires |
| 2:03.5 | sacrifice. The gift of love is never free, but in pursuing a lifestyle of looking to the interest |
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