Returning the Throne
to Christ
Recognising and Surrendering Hidden Idols of the Heart
God works at the root before He changes the fruit.
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What has quietly taken a place in your heart that belongs to God alone?
Hidden idols do not always look sinful.
Control, approval, relationships, comfort, success, ministry, healing, a promise or even our own plans and understanding can begin to rival our trust and dependence on God.
Returning the Throne to Christ is a free biblical discipleship resource designed to help you invite the Holy Spirit beneath the surface and recognise what may be competing for the place Christ alone should hold in your heart.
Centred around Ezekiel 14:3, this resource explores the reality that idolatry begins in the heart. Through biblical teaching, deep heart-reflection questions, practical surrender prompts and Scripture-filled prayer, it will help you move from recognition into repentance, surrender, healing, freedom and obedience.
There can be no shared throne. The throne belongs to Christ alone.
What You'll Find Inside
Biblical teaching on hidden idols of the heart
Teaching from Ezekiel 14:3 and the Hebrew word gillulim
Examples of things that can quietly become idols
Teaching around control, fear, pride, self-reliance and divided loyalty
A substantial Heart Reflection section to work through with the Holy Spirit
Practical surrender and obedience prompts
A Prayer for a Wholehearted Return to Christ
Scripture-based repentance and surrender
Biblical promises concerning healing, freedom and restoration
Scripture declarations based on Ezekiel 36:26–27, Psalm 147:3, John 8:36, Philippians 1:6 and Isaiah 61:1
Guidance for continuing to guard the heart from idols based on 1 John 5:21
A personal closing message from Effie
A Resource to Return To
This 12-page resource has been designed to be saved, printed, prayed through and returned to.
The goal is not simply to identify an idol.
It is to allow the Holy Spirit to expose what is happening beneath the outward behaviour, repent and surrender what has taken the wrong place, allow the Lord to heal what is underneath it, and walk forward in greater peace, freedom, obedience and wholehearted devotion to Christ.
God works at the root before He changes the fruit.