Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

 John 16:13 says “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.” In today’s devotion Gene shares, from his personal experiences, that many times the Spirit leads through gentle nudges. And if we’re going to be led by the Spirit, we must be open to His leadings. 

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

When life isn’t going smoothly, it’s easy to assume that we’ve missed God’s guidance -- that being led by the Spirit is about God leading us to the outcome we desire. Gene focuses his teaching today on “clarifying the goal”, because the Spirit’s guidance is not about personal success, but about personal transformation.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

 When faced with a big decision to make, how often do you find yourself wishing that God would just send you a sign? This week Gene focuses on how to be led by the Spirit, recognizing that often the Spirit of God will lead us in ways that we wouldn’t have ever anticipated

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

 “God is able to do immeasurably more, isn’t He? If we as a church respond to this dangerous call to prayer and pray with purpose, passion, and His power, we will see a miracle in our midst in the next two years. And when we see this miracle, the only words that will be able to come out of our mouths are the same words that came out of Paul’s mouth in Ephesians 3:21, ‘To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.’”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

There is no power like unconditional love. Paul writes in Ephesians 3:17-19, “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power…to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

In these final days of 21 Days Of Prayer, Gene gives us one last challenge – a call to powerful prayer. Paul says in Ephesians 3:16, “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” 

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

How has your prayer life developed through this 21 day journey? In today’s episode, Gene invites Eastsiders to begin praying daily for our church – as we celebrate all that God has done at Eastside these past six decades and as we look to the future. “This is a time to pray with humility and intensity.” Pray “God, do a miracle in me…And do a miracle in our church.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Can you think of a time when you fell to your knees in prayer? We’ve all prayed prayers when we felt like we were sinking – and we instinctively go to our knees in these moments. Why not give it a shot today? Get on your knees and give yourself fully to God – ASK, SEEK, KNOCK. And may you experience the humility and intensity that come from kneeling before our Almighty God. 

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Why doesn’t God answer all of our prayers? The church in Ephesus was facing awesome challenges and discouraging setbacks when Paul writes to them from prison, encouraging them to continue to walk by faith and trust God. “I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.” (Ephesians 3:13) In today’s episode, Gene shares four benefits of prayer in times of stress and discouragement.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Are you ready to abandon it all for the sake of the call? It’s scary to go to new places in our prayer lives, but Gene reminds us in today’s episode that God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine when we lay it all before Him. “God, Help us to be people who keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.