What to do When Desire Drifts
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
JP taught that spiritual drift isn’t usually rebellion but routine, doing the right things while losing real desire for God. Jesus’ message to Ephesus shows the answer isn’t trying harder but repenting and returning to our first love. When we rebuild rhythms that stir our affection for Him, our faith becomes real again.
Discipline without desire leads to drift
Lost love is restored through repentance
Return to rhythms that stir affections
Life Group Discussion:
What spiritual habits do you keep out of routine rather than relationship?
How could admitting drift strengthen your relationship with God instead of producing shame?
What specific practices or environments help you feel closest to God?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so my love language, love language is their thing. Okay, my love language is gifts. |
| 0:06.5 | I love to receive them. I love to give them. It's how I show loves. My wife's love language, |
| 0:12.0 | on the other hand, is acts of service, which is a bummer. You know, that's unfortunate. |
| 0:17.2 | Mismatch there. But in preparation for this message today in this series, I thought, |
| 0:24.3 | you know, the illustration would be just showing just crazy acts of love. So I text her and I just |
| 0:29.7 | say, hey, what's the craziest thing that I've done for you? Like, what's the craziest thing |
| 0:34.5 | that I've done to show you that I love you? And I don't know what she's going to say back, but I kind of know what her options are. I'm kind of thinking I'm auditing in my mind. Oh, she could go here. She could go here. She could say the time that I wrote her a song and I went to the recording studio and paid to have it recorded and then hired somebody to perform the song for her. |
| 0:56.0 | She could go there. She could go the random times we're just going on a normal date. |
| 1:00.6 | And I hire a limousine because I'm the helpless romantic of the, like, this is the stuff that I |
| 1:05.8 | love to do to show her that I love her. Or she could go the time that she wanted a suburban. And we got |
| 1:12.2 | an argument because I was like, we can't afford a suburban. And as I go to see, okay, what can we |
| 1:18.8 | afford? I find this smoking deal on a Cadillac Escalade. Salvage title, rebuilt title, I told you, |
| 1:26.7 | that's how I roll. |
| 1:28.1 | But it was good condition. |
| 1:30.8 | And so I buy it and I park it on the side of the road with the for sale sign on it and a fake phone number. |
| 1:37.3 | And I intentionally drive by to which she says, hey, we should call on that. |
| 1:42.5 | To which I say, I mean, are you serious? We would never, there's no way. Okay, I'll do it. Just, okay, I pretend to call, pretend to talk to them. I go, oh, okay, okay, so all the information is in the console, it's unlocked. Okay, hey, baby, he said it's unlocked. Info's in the console. So she goes in the console, it's a letter that says, it's yours. |
| 2:04.0 | Okay? |
| 2:04.8 | Yeah, yeah, you know. |
| 2:06.8 | So I don't know where she's going to go. |
| 2:08.7 | So I text her, I say, hey, babe, what's the craziest thing that I've done for you? |
| 2:14.6 | To which she responds, hmm, I think it's still coming. |
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