You're listening to a new beginning with Greg Laurie, a podcast supported by Harvest Partners.

For more ways to deepen and challenge your spiritual walk, enroll in Pastor Greg's free online courses.

Sign up at harvest.org.

Don't let another person form your view of God.

Christians, by definition, are supposed to mirror what the Lord is like and is supposed to.

Pastor Greg Laurie gives us some good counsel.

If you've met a HIPAA critical Christian who has disappointed you, let me apologize right now and let me out this.

Get over it.

Jesus did not say follow my people. He said, follow me. Follow Christ. He will not disappoint.

This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day of another beginning. Always in grace, don't sleep or snow.

Again you get a little bit anxious, I see no. This is the day the day we're lost.

The Bible tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, it says to put on the mind of Christ.

The Lord wants us to be holy as I am holy. It's our thoughts, our motives and our actions that set us apart as believers.

It helps us do our job as ambassadors of Christ.

Well today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie takes us to an Old Testament story that shows us how to be a channel through which the love of God can flow to others.

A message of encouragement from the life of David.

So I heard about a little girl that got out her crayons and a piece of paper and announced to Mom and Dad,

I'm going to draw a picture of God. Mom said, honey, nobody knows what God looks like and the little girl said, they will and I'm done.

So what does God like? What is your concept of God? Is he a smiling God, a frowning God? Does he look at us with approval or disapproval?

You know it's interesting that in the Bible, a more than one occasion, the Almighty is referred to as Father.

So we immediately make a connection to our earthly Father. Now maybe you would have fun, dad, a warm dad, an affectionate dad so that gives you a very great concept of your Father in heaven.

But maybe your father was a Louvre for Uncommunicative or even worse. He was absent and even worse than that. He was abusive.

...