Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

What’s distracting you from God?

11 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this sermon excerpt, the speaker challenges listeners to examine any decline in their spiritual devotion and identify the sources that are pulling them away from God. He asks them to consider whether sinful habits, ungodly relationships, or worldly distractions are the culprits. The speaker advocates for a lifestyle of intentional retreat from these influences, even if it invites criticism or labels of being “strange.” He emphasizes that being perceived as odd by the world is preferable to remaining “normal” while being distracted from a focused relationship with Jesus.

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If you found yourself lapsing in your spiritual devotion or your spiritual momentum, now is the time to look around you and say, what are those things from which I need to retreat? What are those things from which you need to turn? Is it a sinful habit? Is it an ungodly relationship? Is it a distraction of this world? To live a lifestyle of retreat is to invite criticism. To live a lifestyle of retreat is to be labeled as strange or weird. But I would rather be considered a little bit strange and be totally focused on Jesus than to be completely normal in the eyes of the world and be distracted in my relationship with God.