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Live Free with Josh Howerton

Vending Machine Mentality | Ep. 88 | Wednesday June 7, 2023

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

2.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Pastor Mike discusses the "Life From God" posture, which views God as a divine vending machine. This entitlement and lack of gratitude can lead to a belief in the prosperity gospel. Rather than seeking God for what He can do, we should enjoy God for who He is. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's Word for your morning drive.

0:08.6

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

0:15.2

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

0:20.6

For more digital content to

0:22.6

feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe. Church slash Daily Drive. And now let's dive in to

0:28.5

today's devotional. Hey, hope you're having a good day. Maybe it's just getting started or maybe it's

0:33.2

coming to a close or maybe you're somewhere in between. Thanks for joining us for the Daily Drive

0:37.5

podcast. My name is Mike, and we just spend a few minutes every day trying to get to know God a little

0:42.9

better. And no matter where you are on this journey, whether you're just starting out or whether

0:47.3

you've been walking with God for a long time, man, I can't tell you how grateful I am for you.

0:51.9

And I'm grateful for the way that God meets us right where we are at this time.

0:56.9

We've been talking this week about the different ways that people relate to God, and we're taking

1:01.6

these five different postures from a book by Sky Jahani called With, in which he takes five

1:06.9

different prepositions under, over, from, for, and with to describe these different

1:12.2

postures people take when it comes to relating to God.

1:15.4

And we've already talked about life under God and life over God in the last two episodes.

1:20.7

If you missed either one of those, you can go back and catch up.

1:23.1

And today we're talking about one that probably every one of us has experienced.

1:28.0

The posture is this life from God.

1:32.1

This is the posture that views God as a divine vending machine.

1:37.8

You just punch in the right number and out comes whatever you want.

1:41.8

You remember the old animated Aladdin movie, the Blue Jeannie that was

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