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First15 Devotional
First15 is a daily devotional written to help you connect with God. Each day, the devotional features scripture, a devotional thought, guided prayer, and action steps. For more information, please visit first15.org. To hear the music from the devotional, search for First15 Worship on Spotify or Apple Music. Tags: First15 Devotional, First 15, First15 Worship, Devotional
Episodes
First15 DevotionalThe Boundless Grace of God
In today’s devotional, we’re going to continue our series seeking to simply stir our affections toward God, by looking at his boundless grace. On a daily…
First15 DevotionalThe Yoke of Jesus
In today’s devotional, we’re going to continue our pursuit of stirring up our affections for God by looking at how God exchanges our burdens for his peace. As…
First15 DevotionalYour Father Gives Good Gifts
This week we’ll start a new series, making space to simply stir up our affections for God every day. Today, we’re going to look at the reality that our God…
First15 DevotionalA Constant Companion
Today we’re wrapping up our week-long series of stirring up our affections for God by looking at what it means to have friendship with the Holy Spirit. The…
First15 DevotionalThe Heart of God to Forgive
As we near the end of our week, creating space every day to simply have our affections stirred up for God, we’re going to take time today to look at God’s…
First15 DevotionalGod Heals Hearts
In today’s devotional, we’re going to look at the reality that God loves to heal hearts. As we continue this series allowing who God is and what he does to…
First15 DevotionalDelighting in God's Love
As we reach the middle of our week-long focus on stirring up our affections for God, today we’re going to create space to simply delight in God’s love…
First15 DevotionalGod Our Father
In the third day of this week-long series where we’ve been taking time every day to stir up our affections for God, today we’re going to look at all it means…
First15 DevotionalThe Lord Your God is in Your Midst
As we continue our focus on simply stirring up our affections for God this week, today we’re going to take time to focus on the fact that God is present in our…
First15 DevotionalThe Sweetness of God's Love
This week on the First15 podcast we’ll spend time stirring up our affections for God through the renewing of our minds. Your mind is the gateway to your…
First15 DevotionalReceiving God's Word through Action
As we finish this week of looking at different ways God speaks, today we’re going to look at the role of taking action in hearing God. One of the most powerful…
First15 DevotionalGod Speaks in Solitude
In today’s devotional, we’re going to look at the value of solitude in making space to hear from God. In all the noise of our world, solitude is more important…
First15 DevotionalGod Speaks through Meditation
In today’s devotional, we’re going to look at the role of meditation in hearing from God. Meditation for many reasons, seems to have found its way out of our…
First15 DevotionalGod Speaks through his Creation
As we arrive in the middle of this week-long focus on hearing from God, today we’re going to look at the role of Creation in God speaking to us as his…
First15 DevotionalHearing God's Voice
As we continue this series looking at different ways God speaks to us as his children, today we’re going to look at what it means to hear God’s voice. The idea…
First15 DevotionalGod Speaks through his Word
As we continue our series looking at different ways God speaks to us as his children, today we’re going to look at the role of Scripture in hearing God. The…
First15 DevotionalGod Speaks
You and I have been given the invaluable gift of communication with God. This week we’ll learn some different ways to receive the seed of God’s word spoken to…
First15 DevotionalThe Experience of His Presence
One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experience the presence of God. His presence is essential to experiencing and knowing him. And God has made…
First15 DevotionalThe Experience of His Freedom
Today we’ll explore the experience of God’s freedom as it relates to our identity and what we believe about ourselves. Many of us have yet to truly taste the…
First15 DevotionalPartnering in His Purposes
Today we’ll explore the concept of partnering with God in his purposes in the earth. God is already at work all around us. He is asking us today to have eyes…
First15 DevotionalThe Experience of His Peace
Life this side of heaven is plagued with all kinds of stress and anxiety. This time of year can be especially stressful too. None of us is immune to this…
First15 DevotionalThe Experience of His Voice
As we continue our week on knowing God through experiencing him, today we’ll explore what it means and looks like to experience his voice. This can often be an…
First15 DevotionalThe Experience of His Love
As we spend this week wholeheartedly seeking to know God with all we are, we’ll take time today to experience God’s love for us. We all may live with the head…
First15 DevotionalGod Wants to be Known
First15 Worship is here! To know God is to experience God. Just as we experience aspects of one another as we grow in friendship, we experience the wonders of…
First15 DevotionalThe Baptism of Jesus
As we wrap up our week exploring the tangible, life-changing presence of God, we’ll look to the baptism of Jesus and how the Spirit of God descended and rested…
First15 DevotionalPentecost
Pentecost means so much to us as believers. The day of Pentecost changed everything for us. Today we’ll explore walking with the Holy Spirit and how he affects…
First15 DevotionalThe Holy of Holies
Today as we look at the Holy of Holies, we’ll see how Jesus fulfilled the requirements of God’s law and is the perfect High Priest on our behalf. As we learn…
First15 DevotionalThe Pillar of God's Presence
Today as we explore the stories of the Israelites being led by the pillar of God’s presence, we’ll examine what that means for God’s leadership in our own…
First15 DevotionalMoses, Isaiah, and the Holiness of God
Today we will look at the stories of Moses and Isaiah. They encountered the holiness of God and were changed forever. As we look upon him, may we be changed…
First15 DevotionalMoses and the Tent of Meeting
In today’s devotional, we’re going to build on the foundation we built yesterday by looking at different stories in which God made his presence known in a…
First15 DevotionalThe Reality of God's Presence
God’s presence is real, full of love, and completely transformational. It takes what was broken and brings healing. It takes what was lost and guides us to our…
First15 DevotionalGifts of the Holy Spirit
In the final devotional of this series on the Holy Spirit, we’re going to look at what God’s word has to say about the gifts of the Spirit. God has called and…
First15 DevotionalSanctification in the Holy Spirit
In today’s devotional, we’re going to explore the concept of sanctification in the Holy Spirit. Every day, every moment, God is working to mold us into his…
First15 DevotionalThe Fruit of the Holy Spirit
In today’s devotional, we’re going to explore how we can bear the life-giving, world-changing fruit of the Holy Spirit. Your life is meant to be marked by…
First15 DevotionalBeing Taught by the Holy Spirit
In this life there are constant lessons for us to learn. And in the Holy Spirit, we have been given an amazing teacher. In today’s devotional we’re going to…
First15 DevotionalPraying with the Holy Spirit
Today we’re going to look at one of the most life giving topics we can discuss, praying with the Holy Spirit. We’ve been given an incredible gift in God that…
First15 DevotionalFriendship with the Holy Spirit
Today we continue our week-long focus on the Holy Spirit by exploring what it means for us to grow in friendship with him. We’ll never have a kinder, more…
First15 DevotionalThe Leading of the Holy Spirit
As believers, we’ve been given the Holy Spirit as a Helper, Teacher, Friend, and seal for the promised inheritance of eternal life with God. His presence…
First15 DevotionalLiving Courageously
As we wrap up our week on being used by God, today we’ll ask God to fill us with courage to live uncomfortably. May we bare our hearts before God, and ask him…
First15 DevotionalLiving Compassionately
As we begin to wrap up our week on being used by God, today we’ll explore what it means to live compassionately. This radical way of living will transform the…
First15 DevotionalEvangelism
Today we’ll explore the concept of evangelism. There are so many fears and misconceptions wrapped up in this topic, and my hope today is that we’ll simplify…
First15 DevotionalLight in the Darkness
One of the best ways we can be used by God is by simply being ourselves. The identity Christ has given us as daughters and sons is meant to shine forth and be…
First15 DevotionalDeclaring God's Glory
Being used by God requires inward humility and exaltation of Jesus as King. It’s the only way being used by the Lord can work. Today we’ll take a deeper dive…
First15 DevotionalGod is Already at Work
If we are going to be used by God, we must first acknowledge that he is already at work all around us, and that his work isn’t contingent upon us. This is not…
First15 DevotionalGod Wants to Use You
In response to God’s work in our hearts, we are called to share the wonders of his invisible nature with a world in desperate need of him. God has chosen to…
First15 DevotionalGaining Spiritual Eyes
Today as we wrap up our week of diving deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we’ll explore what it means to gain spiritual eyes. Our human…
First15 DevotionalFirst15 Conversations: Media Consumption
Pre-Order Your Copy of Living Intentionally Here! According to a recent Business Insider study, the average iPhone user reaches for their phone 2,616 times per…
First15 DevotionalSurrender
Fullness of life and surrender are inextricably linked. As we begin to wrap up our week on diving into the fullness of life, today we’ll explore the concept of…
First15 DevotionalUnderstanding
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…
First15 DevotionalFaith and Trust
Are you standing on sinking sand? Or do you feel the ground firm beneath your feet? Assess your heart in this moment. Are you living in fear? Are you shaken as…
First15 DevotionalAcknowledging Our Need
As we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us this week, looking at the concept of acknowledging our need for God is essential. We will never…
First15 DevotionalHonesty Before Man
As we continue to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, today we’ll explore what it means to live honestly before man. In a world of facades…
First15 DevotionalHonesty Before God
God’s goodness over our lives far exceeds anything we’ve experienced. We’ve only yet splashed around in the shallows of God’s deep love and mercy. In order to…
First15 DevotionalLiving Honestly
In the last devotional in our series on honesty, today we’re going to focus simply on what it means to live honestly every day. My hope for today is that God…
First15 DevotionalFirst15 Conversations: Relationships
Pre-Order Your Copy of Living Intentionally Here! Yes, relationships are hard. But healthy relationships are also an important part of a healthy and thriving…
First15 DevotionalFreedom in the Light
As we near the end of our week on honesty, today we’re going to discover together how there is freedom in the light. Any part of our lives in which we’re…
First15 DevotionalFully Loved
As we continue our week focusing on honesty, today we’re going to look at how true honesty affords us the ability to be more fully loved. At the foundation of…
First15 DevotionalFully Known
As we hit the middle of our week on honesty, today we’re going to explore how being truly honest, or living fully known, is critical to experiencing fullness…
First15 DevotionalTearing Down Walls
In today’s devotional, we’re continuing our focus on honesty by looking at how we can tear down walls we’ve built up in God’s presence every day. There is true…
First15 DevotionalFacade
In day 2 of our series on honesty, today we’re going to look at the temptation to build a façade and invite God to tear it down as we seek to live more…