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“Where does your allegiance lie?”
In this episode, pastor’s wife and author, Christine Hoover, shares from her newest book, With All Your Heart: Living Joyfully Through Allegiance to King Jesus. After a difficult season of feeling grieved and starved for validation, God did a deep work in Christine’s heart. She began to recognize false allegiances that were keeping her from experiencing the peace and joy of living with a whole-hearted devotion to Christ.
It can be so easy to get caught up in self-reliance or seeking the approval of people and neglect our call to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). But only Jesus deserves our allegiance and He alone satisfies!
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Important Takeaways from Show
- The Kingdom of God is past, present and future
- Jesus came and established the Kingdom of God
- The Church is presently the Kingdom of God
- We look forward with anticipation to the Kingdom of God that is to come
- The primary allegiance that pulls us away from Christ is self
- We have an internal war with our flesh that tempts us to rely only on ourselves
- “There is a throne in every kingdom of our heart” – Ray Stedman
- We have to identify the false kings in our lives (anxiety, approval, comfort, etc..)
- When there is bad fruit being produced in your life, trace it back to a false allegiance
- When you recognize a false allegiance, repent and turn to Jesus
- Our false allegiances affect others negatively as well
- God will allow things to be shaken to reveal our weak places and give us the unshakable Kingdom of God
- Until we determine that Christ is Lord of all, everything can be shaken
- King Escape is the ruler of this modern age
- Rather than escape into distraction, allow God the space to speak
- “Loneliness is sometimes God’s call to aloneness with us” Jeanne Mayo
- Kingdom work is bringing our hearts under the rule and reign of Jesus
- Rather than striving to do everything, take some time to wait and hear what God wants
- “They also serve, who only stand and wait” – John Milton
- The Kingdom of God is a corporate kingdom and is meant to be done together
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind. ~ Luke 10:27
Links from Show
With All Your Heart: Living Joyfully Through Allegiance to King Jesus
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I’d love to hear from you… What spoke most to you from Christine’s interview?
