Hey, it's David Platt. I am really looking forward to Secret Church 25 on April 11th, and I hope you'll

join us for six hours digging deep into the book of Matthew, praying for our persecuted

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First Samuel, chapter 16, verse 7. But the Lord said to Samuel do not look on his appearance

or on the height of his stature because I have rejected him for the Lord sees not as man sees

man looks on the outward appearance but the Lord looks on the heart oh this is such a good

verse as God is talking about David who scripture will later say is a man after his own

heart and he didn't have the appearance and a variety of other things that his brothers had,

but he did have the heart that 1st Samuel chapter 16 verse 7 says is what God focuses on.

And there's so much we could talk about here, so many different directions we could go.

I want to take it in two different directions as we pray. One, I want to remind you and me that what is most important

before God is the state of our hearts, not of our looks or our appearance in a variety of different ways.

We are all so tempted to focus on what we look like, how we appear before others.

And I'm not even just saying so physically our appearance,

although we do spend a good amount of time in mirrors looking at our appearances

and evaluating our appearances,

but also we just spend so much time even unconsciously thinking about what to others think

about me, what to others see in me. And I just want to encourage you, focus instead on your

heart before God. This is most important.

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