Feeling Far from God? Kristian Stanfill Shares a Simple Invitation to Return

The Matthew West Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

He’s led worship in rooms filled with thousands, but some of the most sacred moments in Kristian Stanfill’s faith journey have happened in the quiet moments offstage. In this episode, he shares honestly about what’s shaped him and the simple beauty of returning to God.

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0:00.0	I think it's Jeremiah 29, where it says, you will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with
0:06.0	all your heart. I was about to send my daughter to, you know, some college campus and I was
0:11.2	scared to death. And yet I see like these people coming to Jesus. All throughout the year,
0:17.7	24, everywhere we went, we were seeing the same thing. Every college campus we went to,
0:23.7	every worship night that we were a part of, it was supernatural. That's the only way to explain it.
0:28.9	It was just God pulling back the curtain and revealing himself. So you might say today,
0:34.2	I want that abundant life and just turn around, turn back toward him.
0:38.5	That's all it ever really needed to be was just your heart pursuing me.
0:42.8	Just the simple, like, I love you.
0:45.0	I love you.
0:49.2	I really hope you like it.
0:49.7	I really hope you like it.
0:53.6	What's up, my friends?
0:55.0	Welcome to another episode of the Matthew West podcast.
0:57.8	I'm your host, Matthew West.
0:58.8	And as always, I really hope you like it.
1:01.0	I'm coming to you from The Storyhouse here in Nashville, Tennessee.
1:03.5	Of course, if you're watching this episode, then you know, because you can see it.
1:08.9	But today is not songwriting day in the storyhouse.
1:11.7	It's a podcast day.
1:13.0	And I'm super excited about today's guest.
1:16.6	We've become friends over the last year and a half.
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