Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy masterpiece podcast which had an

Tory welcome to the best month of the year my birth month happy July July one

we're super excited to start this month off with you all we have some fun

stuff in the in the in the plants and the works for this month so stay tuned

for that but until then we're gonna go and jump into today's devotional yes you

guys let's do it we're still continuing this study on waiting on God and today's

devotional chat and I are gonna kind of do it together so it should be fun it's

titled the idols that impede your faith it says as we direct our focus to the

father and wait patiently for his will to open wide the way in our lives we may

discover that there are many things standing in the way of deepening our

relationship with God and exercising our faith in him these strongholds or

idols are very subtle they steal into your life covertly rooting themselves in

your emotions and becoming more important to you than God no one can identify

an idol except the Lord and he sees your heart clearly anything that

competes for your total devotion to God is an idol in your life so what is it

in you what are those things hidden or known to you that stand in your way of

waiting patiently for the Lord's will to manifest in your life ask the father

to reveal them to you he's promised he'll be faithful to show you if and where

an idol exists but be very careful that you don't rationalize away what he

reveals to you if the Lord puts his finger on something in your life then set

your mind to deal with it immediately yeah I love that last part because I

feel like naturally we want to pretend we don't have idols because it's like a

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