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connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

If you want to mature as a follower of Jesus, you must align the desires of your heart

with the desires of God's heart.

What God wants for you, you must want for yourself.

What's important to God must be important to you.

In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's sermon series in the Gospel of Mark.

And today, Paul reveals why Jesus came to earth, so that we can begin to ask from Jesus what he would want us to ask. If you've been enjoying the Paul Trip podcast, would you consider leaving a review?

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Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

If you could ask one thing of Jesus, what would you ask?

If you could ask one thing, what would you ask?

The passage we're going to look at this evening from Mark 1, 29 through 39, does a wonderful

job of revealing the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, what's important to him, what his zeal

is.

And there's a way in which your growth as a believer is all about your

desires matching God's desires, that the zeal of your heart would match the zeal of your

Lord's heart, that what he wants for you, you would want for yourself,

that what's important to him would be important to you.

And so it's important for us to have this wonderful window into the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's given to us in four vignettes, a fisherman's house, the gathering of a huge and growing crowd,

an isolated place of prayer, and a conversation with the disciples.

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