Episode 1090: Heart Posture. Is Your Heart Aligned With God's?Episode 1090: Heart Posture. Is Your Heart Aligned With God's?
Take 12 Recovery Radio
HEART POSUTRE. Is your heart aligned the best for your recovery? This episode of the Came to Beli...
1:10:53•1 Apr 2026
Heart Posture, Idols and Honest Recovery: Is Your Heart Aligned with God?
Episode Overview
- Heart posture is described as the condition and position of someone’s heart towards God, shaping how truth, correction and grace are received.
- Idols can be anything placed before God – money, relationships, work, food or status – and everyone is urged to honestly identify their own.
- The hosts stress that AA meetings are the fellowship, while the actual AA programme is the 12 Steps and the recovery process.
- Sharing experience, strength and hope is framed as testimony rather than ‘projecting’ sobriety, though they accept it may feel confronting.
- Lasting recovery is linked to an open, teachable heart and to living in Steps 10, 11 and 12 as an ongoing way of life rather than a one-off fix.
“Proper heart posture is essential for recovery because it shapes the way you and I will receive truth, correction, and grace.”
How can we talk about recovery without talking about the heart behind it? This episode of *Take 12 Recovery Radio’s* Came to Believe Recovery Podcast looks at “heart posture” – how someone’s inner attitude towards God shapes sobriety, spiritual growth, and daily choices. Host Monty Dale Meyer (the Monty’man) joins co-hosts Alicia Martinez and Tom for a blend of humour, listener mail, and some very honest spiritual reflection.
Between stories of scuba diving with sharks, coffee served in a bag, and strong opinions on fish and pastries, you’ll hear some very real questions about 12-Step living and faith. The heart posture theme runs through everything: idols, money, meetings, and how people treat each other in recovery. Tom links heart posture to idols: anything you believe will make you happy more than God, whether that’s success, relationships, food, or your bank balance.
Alicia pushes the “be honest” button: it’s not *if* you have idols, it’s *which* ones. Monty ties it back to willingness and submission, asking why people cling to destructive choices even when they know better. Biblical characters are used as case studies: David, Saul/Paul, Nicodemus, Jonah, Peter and Moses all show that “God is the rescuer” and that transformation comes from God’s action, not human perfection.
As Monty puts it, “We do recover because it’s being built on a foundation that can endure hardship.” The trio also tackles hot-button issues: Are meetings the AA programme or just the fellowship? Is it “projecting sobriety” to share strong opinions? Is wealth proof of blessing or an idol in disguise? You won’t get neat clichés here, but you will get honest tension, laughter, and some tough questions that might nudge you to ask: where’s *my* heart really pointing today?
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