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MESSAGE TITLE:
“God Doesn’t Need Your Performance. He Desires Your Purity”.
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
(Matthew 5:8)
DATE: April 4, 2025
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The world may cheer your performance, but only purity keeps heaven listening.
INTRODUCTION
You can move a crowd with your voice…
You can shake a room with your charisma…
But can you touch heaven with your heart?
In a world obsessed with platforms, stage lights, and applause, it’s easy to forget:
God doesn’t anoint performance-He sanctifies purity.
The church applauds gifting, but heaven looks for purity.
We raise performers, but God seeks those who carry His presence.
MAIN MESSAGE
“Blessed are the pure in heart…” (Matthew 5:8)
Not “the popular.” Not “the powerful.” Not “the public figures.”
The pure. That’s who gets to see God.
You can impress men with polished sermons and fiery prayers,
but if lust still owns your thoughts,
if pride still sits in your chest,
if bitterness still sleeps in your spirit…
then you’ve performed for people, but missed the audience of God.
The truth is-God would rather hear your silence in purity than your noise in hypocrisy.
You can sing and still stink.
You can preach and still perish.
Because He sees what men cannot: your private altars.
In heaven’s economy, the oil flows where the heart is clean.
Not where the voice is loudest.
Not where the dance is wildest.
God doesn’t clap for your performance.
He weeps when your purity is gone.
TAKEAWAY STATEMENT
You can shine on stage but rot in secret. God isn’t impressed by performance-He desires purity. Only a heart fully surrendered can carry the weight of His glory.
CLOSING PRAYER POINTS
1. Father, strip me of every performance-driven motive. Make my heart Your dwelling, not my talent.
2. Jesus, refine me with holy fire. I don’t want to just sound anointed-I want to live surrendered.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
