REIGNITING YOUR PASSION FOR GOD
Rick Warren
July 19-20, 2003
Jesus said, “Love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.” Mark 12:30 (Msg)
With all your heart…
SEEK God passionately! Deut. 4:29
LOVE God passionately! Deut. 6:5
SERVE God passionately! Deut. 10:12
OBEY God passionately! Deut. 30:2
TRUST God passionately! Pr. 3:5
Do everything passionately! Col. 3:23
“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor.”
Rom. 12:11 (NIV)
A CHECKLIST OF PASSION-KILLERS
1. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE.
Too much work will lose you passion.
“It is senseless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death; for God wants His loved ones to get their proper rest.” Ps. 127:2 (LB)
Need take time to rest.
Always taking or input, also will lose your passion.
No mission, not serving...
Either too much input but no output, or too much output no input. It is not healthy.
“Take the time and the trouble to keep yourself spiritually fit.” 1 Tim. 4:7b (Ph)
BALANCE UP.
2. AN UNUSED TALENT.
Use what God's give you.
Use your talent in a ministry because there are no job can used all your talent.
If your job kill your passion, get out of it.
“Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well.” 1 Peter 4:10 (CEV)
“Each one should live his life with the gifts that the Lord has given him...”
1 Cor. 7:17 (Ph)
3. AN UNCONFESSED SIN.
“My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear... I am bowed down and brought low.” Ps. 38:4+6 (NIV)
4. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT.
“Resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.” Job 5:2 (NLT)
“You are only hurting yourself with your anger.” Job 18:4 (GN)
5. AN UNSUPPORTED LIFESTYLES.
=No fellowship
We need each other.
We need a small group.
“Two are better than one, because… if one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!” Eccl. 4:9-10 (NIV)
We need relationship to grow.
“Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together… but let us encourage one another.” Heb. 10:24-25 (NIV)
6. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE.
“I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.”
Isa. 49:4 (NIV)
7. AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT.
“Just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust Him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with Him. Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous…”
Col. 2:6-7 (LB)
“You must worship only the Lord, for He is a God who is passionate about His relationship with you.” Ex. 34:14 (NLT)
THE PASSION OF JESUS
“Jesus showed Himself alive to them after His Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days He had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God.”
Acts 1:3 (NJB)
“Whoever is wise will remember these things and will think about the deep love of the Lord.” Ps. 107:43 (NCV)
“God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” 1 John 4:9-10 (NLT)
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