How I Went From Lukewarm to On Fire for God

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Darin Starks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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If you’ve ever felt like you’ve drifted from God, like that fire you once had for Him has faded, this one’s for you. I know what it’s like to think you’re too far gone, to believe you have to “fix yourself” before you can come back to Him. That was me—stuck in shame, projecting my own feelings about myself onto God, convinced He had distanced Himself from me. But Exodus 34:6 completely shifted my view of Him. This is the first time in the Bible God describes Himself, and what He says will wreck every lie you’ve believed about how He sees you. In this episode, we’ll walk through the context of that verse, what it meant to the original audience, and why it still changes everything for us today. My prayer is that by the end, you’ll see Him more clearly and come back to Him with your head held high, knowing He still loves you, still chooses you, and is still faithful—no matter what.

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0:00.0	This is how I went from lukewarm to on fire for God. And the biggest shift that happened in my life to get me to this point was knowing who God really was. Because the issue that I had wasn't that whenever I was one foot in, one foot out, that I didn't want to get closer to God. But it was the fact that I didn't believe that I was
0:22.2	worthy enough to come back to him. And I think some of us may have been in this position before
0:27.1	when we find ourselves in cycles of sin or going back to what God deliver us from. We find
0:32.2	ourselves on all this shame and start telling ourselves that we're too far gone, that God isn't
0:36.1	wanted us back home, and we almost believe that we have to clean ourselves up before we get back to God and that's exactly where I was at and it wasn't until I changed the way I was seeing God that I was able to get close to him because I thought God had basically distance himself from me when I was the one that was distancing myself from
0:57.5	God because I had a preconceived notion on how he was thinking of me that wasn't true. And what
1:03.7	God showed me was like I was actually projecting on God the way that I felt about myself. Because
1:09.7	I believe that I was just worthless and I
1:14.8	wasn't even deserving of any love or grace or mercy and so I tried to take my deliverance into
1:21.5	my own hand but I had to put more faith and trust in God's word for my life than my own.
1:28.6	And once I did that, everything started to shift.
1:31.4	And as I got closer to God and gave him my heart, that's when he changed my habits.
1:35.5	So that is a concise way of the journey of what that look like.
1:44.1	And I want to get more into that process of
1:46.5	that impracticality and in depth of even verses that have helped me to really know who God is so I can
1:53.2	so I could have even verses that helped me know who God is that eventually led me to get back on track with him.
2:02.5	But with that being said, welcome to the Disciples Journal.
2:06.7	I'm your host, Darren Starks, and this is where you learn to walk with Jesus every single day.
2:12.7	And yes, this episode is just all about what it looks like to get your passion back for God, that
2:19.5	zeal that you once had because sometimes we feel like that fire that we had at that one
2:26.3	period in our relationship with God is something that we can never get back and that is
2:29.8	completely not the case.
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