What is Turning Our Hearts Away from God? (1 Kings 11:6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Kings 11:6, David Platt encourages Christians to examine their hearts to see what is turning their heart from God.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.0 | And we know that's what this is talking about, his heart because earlier in 1 Kings 11, verse 3, |
| 0:39.0 | after Solomon went after many women and wives and concubines, the Bible says his wives turned away his heart. |
| 0:49.0 | So could we just pause today and ask the question, what in our lives is turning our hearts? |
| 0:59.0 | In what ways are our hearts not wholly given over to God? |
| 1:10.0 | This is the first and greatest commandment, right? Jesus tells us, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind and strength. |
| 1:22.0 | So where is your heart locking in love for God? |
| 1:27.0 | Where can you and I grow in love for God with all our hearts and all our souls and all our mind and all our strength? |
| 1:38.0 | Solomon did what was evil on the side of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord. |
| 1:45.0 | For his wives had turned away his heart, God, we pray that you would help us to love you with all our hearts, soul, mind and strength. |
| 1:55.0 | We want to love you with everything we have. We want to wholly follow you. |
| 2:00.0 | Lord, so help us. God, help us to see any and everything in our lives in this world that's turning away our hearts from you. |
| 2:12.0 | That we're focused on before you, above you, that our allegiance is toward instead of you. |
| 2:21.0 | God, we want you to be supreme in our allegiance. We want you to be supreme in our affections for you alone or worthy of supreme affections. |
| 2:31.0 | We know, Jesus, you told us, whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. |
| 2:38.0 | Whoever loves brother or sister more than me is not worthy of me. |
| 2:43.0 | Whoever loves his own life more than me is not worthy of me because you alone are worthy of our lives. |
| 2:50.0 | You are worthy of all our love. You are supremely good. You are supremely gracious. You are supremely great. |
| 2:58.0 | And all other loves in our lives we want to pale in comparison to love for you. |
| 3:04.0 | Even in light of Luke 14, if anyone does not hate his father or mother, brother, sister, wife and children, we know you call us to love our parents and siblings and spouses and children. |
| 3:16.0 | But God, we see in your word that you've called us to love for you that makes any other love in this world. |
| 3:23.0 | Look like hate in comparison. So God, we pray that you would teach us to love you like this. |
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