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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 Devotional
God the Giver of Courage
In today’s devotional, we wrap up our week on God giving good gifts by looking at how God is the giver of courage. Fear is something that plagues us all in…
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God the Giver of Strength
In today’s First15, we’re going to explore and experience the ways God gives us strength. There is not much better than becoming aware of our weakness and…
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The Lord Gives Direction
As we near the end of our week on God giving us good, heavenly gifts, we’re going to take time today to discover and reflect on the ways God gives us…
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The Lord Gives Contentment
In today’s First15, we’re going to explore the way God gives us contentment in the midst of every season and place he plants us. May you walk in immense…
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God Gives Peace
As we continue our series on God the Giver of Gifts, we’re going to take time today to look at the peace God is faithful to give. We all need peace in this…
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God Our Great Deliverer
Today as we continue to explore ways God is a wonderful, giving Father, we’re going to focus on the delivering power of God to set the captive free and rescue…
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God the Giver of Comfort
Our heavenly Father is the giver of every good gift. This week in the First15 devotional we’re going to explore the different gifts only God can give. His…
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God Desires to be Encountered
In today’s First15, we’re going to respond to God’s open invitation to seek his face. God desires to meet with you just as you are. So great was his desire for…
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God’s Great Gift of Love
In today’s First15 we’re going to create space to talk about and receive God’s great gift of love. You and I were made to be loved by God. And until we make…
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God is Good
In today’s First15, we’re going to dive deeper into the reality of God’s goodness. At every turn, just when I wonder how good God really is, he always has a…
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God is Worthy of Devotion
In today’s First15, we’re going to spend time reflecting on how worthy God is of our devotion. Life is never better than when God is fully at the center of our…
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God is Trustworthy
In today’s First15, we’re going to take time today to simply focus on how trustworthy our heavenly Father is. Our trust is always meant to be a response to…
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God Our Great Protector
Every day we experience fear in some way. Whether it’s fear over the opinion of others, fear of the future, or fear over the ways and plans of evil, we’re in…
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Sanctification in the Waiting
It’s vital to the Christian life that we as sons and daughters of the most high God allow our affections to be stirred by the loving, powerful nature of our…
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The Faithfulness of God
In the last day of this week where we’re seeking to stir up our affections for God, today we’re going to look at God’s faithfulness. You and I can have faith…
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Being the Child of God
In today’s First15, we’re going to stir up our affections for God by looking at what it means, when Scripture calls us his children. As a child of God, you are…
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No Better Friend
In today’s First 15, we’re going to stir up our affections by looking at God’s invitation to us in Revelation 3:20 to share a meal with him. This metaphor…
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The Wisdom of God
In today’s First15, we’re going to stir up our affections for God by looking at his wisdom. Not only is our God wise, but he longs to share his wisdom with us…
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The Boundless Grace of God
In today’s First15, we’re going to continue our series seeking to simply stir our affections toward God, by looking at his boundless grace. On a daily basis…
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The Yoke of Jesus
In today’s First15, 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 a…
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Your 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…
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A 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…
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The 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…
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God Heals Hearts
On today’s First15, 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 stir…
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Delighting 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…
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God our Father
In the third day of this week-long series, taking time every day to stir up our affections for God, today we’re going to look at all it means for him to be our…
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The 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…
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The Sweetness of God’s Love
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…
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Receiving 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…
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God Speaks in Solitude
In today’s First15, 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…
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God Speaks through Meditation
In today’s First15, 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…
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God 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…
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Hearing 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…
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God 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…
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God Speaks
You and I have been given the invaluable gift of communication with God. Last week we learned about the process of making the soil of our hearts soft and…
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The Experience of His Presence
One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experiencing the presence of God. His presence is essential to experiencing and knowing him. And God has made…
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The 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…
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Partnering 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…
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The 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…
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The 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…
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The 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…
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God Wants to be Known
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 God as we seek to simply…
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The 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…
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Pentecost
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…
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The 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…
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The 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…
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Moses, 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…
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Moses and the Tent of Meeting
In today’s First15, 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…
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The 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…
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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
In the final First15 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…
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Sanctification in the Holy Spirit
In today’s First15, 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…
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The Fruit of the Holy Spirit
In today’s First15, 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 love…
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Being 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 First15 podcast we’re going…
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Praying 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…
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Friendship 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…
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The 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…
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Living 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…
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Living 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…
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Evangelism
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…
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Light 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…