What is driving you to God?
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Summary
In one line: What drove you to God determines whether you'll stay — not effort, but posture.
Key points
- "A righteous man falls seven times and rises again" (Proverbs 24:16) — the stumbling of the flesh is not the posture of the heart; posture determines whether His hand pulls you back.
- Prayer: "I positioned myself to be favoured by men… but it's about pleasing You — give me a pure heart."
Transcript
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How are you positioned before God?
What is your posture before God?
I want you to rise up. I want you to stand up and ask yourself. Have you come before God genuinely or or have you come before God by reason of what is happening around you? What drove you before God is important because it determines if you will stay because what keeps you before God is not effort is posture.
Because a righteous man may fall seven times but he rises up again. Because the stumbling of the flesh is not the posture of the heart.
Because the flesh is weak. I will stumble. I've stumbled many times. You will stumble many times. But our stumbling is not what will take us away from God. It's our posture. Our posture determines if his right hand will grab us and pull us back to himself. That
is the key. lifting your hands to him.
Lifting your hands to the Lord.
Cry to him and tell him, "Father, give me a pure heart. Give me a pure heart. Restore purity within me that I may have the right posture before you."
Say, "Father, before
Father, before
in the past,
I positioned myself
after men.
After men,
I want to be favored by men.
I wanted to be favored by men.
I wanted to appease men.
But I forgot it's about pleasing you.
Father, I pray in the name of Jesus. Father, I pray in the name of Jesus
that I will have the right posture before you
that I will have the right posture before you.
Father, I pray in the name of Jesus,
Father, I pray in the name of Jesus
that I will have the right posture before you.
that I will have the right posture before you. Lift your voice and begin to speak to