Sandy EdwardsPastor, Founder, Thirst With Hunger · Pastor at Thirst With Hunger

Soul to The Spirit

23 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this devotional monologue, the speaker uses King David as a paradigm for an authentic, transparent relationship with God. He emphasizes that David’s willingness to be completely honest about his inner feelings allowed him to move beyond merely lingering in his emotions. The pivotal shift, according to the speaker, was David’s decision to begin magnifying God rather than staying stuck in his own soul. This transition unlocked divine wisdom, revelation, and breakthrough. The speaker applies this pattern to listeners, urging them to first acknowledge and express their feelings before deliberately focusing on magnifying God, asserting that such honesty and subsequent magnification are prerequisites for personal transformation and miracles.

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We often talk about how David is our favorite person from the Bible, and we marvel at how close he was with God, the kind of relationship he had with God, and how he was a man after God's own heart. But let me help you understand something. David had an understanding that most of us honestly sometimes lack. He was willing to do whatever it took to be completely honest with God about what was going on in his heart. But he didn't stop there. Eventually, he left from the place of lingering around in his soul and his feelings and all of those human experiences he was having, and he began to shift into magnifying God. And it was only when he made the shift between lingering around in his soul and how he felt and he began to magnify God that he experienced transformation. And that's when God would give him wisdom. That's when God would give him revelations. So perhaps today, or in your life, God wants to perform a miracle for you, but first you gotta stop lingering around in your soul. Address what's going on, say how you feel, but at some point you gotta start magnifying God. At some point you have to get up. Okay, so I love you. Let David be your favorite, but be honest with God. That's where your breakthrough gonna come through. That's the first step.