MGD: Finding God - 1

Charlon beloved, you are welcome to today's Morning Glory Devotion.

We have pastor in teaching as KOs from the Harvest

Shapon International Dnamiko Mercy, and we are humbled to be

bringing you another episode of our Morning Glory Devotion. Let

us Candy share a word of prayer. Your Father, thank

you for the blessing of today. As you're studying your word,

please transform our lives with the truth that comes only

from you in Jesus Mighty name. Amen, Amen, let us

kind of take our confession for today from Jewsha chapter

one 's aid Josh Chapter one vest aid.

This book of the Law shall not depart from my mouth,

but I shall meditate the next day and night that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I'll make my way cross cross,

and then I will have good success. Amen.

Today's message is titled Finding God Part one. He is

closer than you think. Finding God Part one, He is

closer than you think. Our scripture reading shall be taken

from at chapter seventeen, verse twenty two to Tunity eight.

At chapter seventeen, vers twenty two to Trinity eight. I'll

be reading from their New International version. Paul then stood

up in the meeting of the aneal Pagos, I said,

people of Athens, I see that in every way you

are very religious. For as I walked around and looked

carefully at the objects of worship, I have found an

altar with this inscription to one unknown God. So you

are ignorant of the very thing in worship. And this

is what I am going to proclaim to you. The

God who made the world and everything in it, is

the Lord of heaven and hearth, and does not live

in the temples guilt by human hands, and he is

not saved by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather,

he himself gives everyone life and breadth and everything else

from one man. He made all the nations that they

should inhabit the whole health, and he marked out their

appointed times in history and the boundaries of their glance.

God did they so that they would seek him and

perhaps reach out for him and find him. Though he

is not far from any one of us, for in

him we live and move and have our being. As

some of your own poets have said, we are his offspral.

The Lord add his blessings to.

The reading and hearing of his word, Thanks God, Amen.

Finding God Part one. He is closer than you think.

When the apostle Paul stood on mass heel before the

philosopher's of Haurvents, he noticed an altar bearing a curious

inscription to the unknown God. It was a confession of

humanity's old as such, deep within every heart is a

longing for something greater than ourselves, a desire to find God,

to know him, and to understand why we are here.

Yet many imagining him to a distance, hidden somewhere beyond reach.

Paul gently corrected that notion. Speaking of God, he said

that He determined the times and places where we would live,

so that we would seek him and perhaps reach out

for him and find him. Though he is not far

from any one of us. At seventeen the rest tub seven.

What a comforting truth. God is not hiding from us,

is drawing near to us. We see this beautifully in

the Christmas story. When God wanted to lead the wise

men to Christ, he used the star. These were men

who spent their nine steadying the heavens, so God spoke

to them throw something familiar a star. Likewise, when the

angels announce the bed of Jesus to shepherds, They pointed

them to a baby lying in a manger. To many,

a manger was an ordinary feeding trough, but to shepherds

it was part of their daily world. God used something

they immediately recognize and could relate to. The lesson is simple.

God often reveals himself through the ordinary details of life.

For some, it may be a conversation that lingers in

the mind long after it ends. For another, it may

be a scripture that keeps resurfacing. For someone else, there

may be a burden in prayer that refuses to go away.

Sometimes his fingerprints appearing on exp provision, an open door,

a timing word of encouragement, or even a season of

difficulty that quietly draws us back to him. The tragedy

is not that God is absent. The tragedy is that

we are often looking for him in the spectacular, while

he's right there in the familiar. Beloved God is closer

than you think. He is present in your workplace, in

your classroom, in your home, in your moments of joy,

and even in your seasons of uncertainty. Long before you

ever started searching for him, he had already begun drawing

new to himself. So today slow down, look again, listen carefully,

open your heart to His gentle workings around you. You

may discover that the goal you have been sessioned four

has been walking beside you all along or way sleepless.

Let us kind of take our memory verse for today.

Our memory verse shall be taken from Acts Chatter seventeen

the verse twenty seven, Acts seventeen the verse twenty seven,

and I will be reading from the new International version.

God did this so that they will seek him and

perhaps reach out for him and find him though he

is not far from any one of us. God did

this that it will seek him and perhaps reach out

for him and find him though he is not far

from anyone of us. And let us kind of share

a wad of prayer. Father, open our eyes to recognize

your presence in the ordinary moments of our lives. Help

us not to overlook your hand at work around us.

Give us hearts that seek you and eyes that recognize

your nearness. In Jesus his name and.

God reach a bless you for staying all you Today's

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