How I Went From Lukewarm to On Fire for God

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🗓️ 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. Want to go deeper and walk with God every day? Join me on After God’s Heart—a daily devotional podcast designed to help you know who He really is and ignite your passion for Him again. You can try it free for 7 days: https://aftergodsheart.carrd.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
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0:30.4	This is how I went from lukewarm to on fire for God. And the biggest shift that happened in my life
0:36.4	to get me to this point was knowing
0:38.7	who God really was. Because the issue that I had wasn't that whenever I was one foot in,
0:46.2	one foot out that I didn't want to get closer to God. But it was a fact that I didn't believe
0:51.6	that I was worthy enough to come back to him. And I think some of us may
0:55.6	have been in this position before when we find ourselves in cycles of sin or going back to what God
1:00.6	deliver us from. We find ourselves on all this shame and start telling ourselves that we're too far gone
1:05.6	that God isn't wanted us back home. And we almost believe that we have to clean ourselves up
1:09.9	before we get back to God.
1:11.4	And that's exactly where I was at. And it wasn't until I changed the way I was seeing God that
1:16.5	I was able to get close to him because I thought God had basically distanced himself from me
1:24.9	when I was the one that was distancing myself from God because I had a
1:29.6	preconceived notion on how he was thinking of me that wasn't true and what God showed me was like
1:35.0	I was actually projecting on God the way that I felt about myself because I believe that I was just
1:42.6	worthless and I wasn't even deserving of any love or grace or mercy.
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