Passion is the Difference Maker
Hey Friends,
Everyone today is looking for the edge – what will put them ahead of the competition. In a negative economy, what gives you the edge? In a day when so many are looking for jobs, what is the edge? In a day when so few churches are growing, what is the difference?
PASSION MAKES THE DIFFERENCE AND IT GIVES THE EDGE!
Let me give you some passion principles that I hope will help you:
1. Passion is the first step to achievement. To quote my friend John Maxwell: “Your desire determines your destiny. The stronger your fire, the greater the desire – and the greater the potential.”
2. Passion increases your spirit. If you are passionate about something it is fuel in your tank. You can keep going when others quit. The more I am around Coach Pat Summitt, I see why she keeps winning. She is full of passion. It is fire for the spirit.
3. Passion grows you. If you follow your passions you can’t help becoming more dedicated and devoted, productive and powerful in the field of your fire. You can only grow and become better.
4. Passion makes the impossible possible. In Genesis the people were building a tower to heaven. God said, “They are together and nothing is impossible for them.” Just think what would happen if the church got fired up and passionate about building the Kingdom! Wow – nothing would be impossible with Jesus!
Ask the Lord for passion. My tank stays so full, and people ask me how I stay fired up. It comes from a few things:
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1. It comes from surrender to the Spirit of God.
2. It comes from quality time with the Lord daily.
3. It comes from the Word of God which is a fire in my heart.
4. It comes from the people I hang with.
Are you on fire? Catch the fire and heat of the Spirit of the Living God.
Love you,
Pastor Chris
8 Comments
God, give us a passion that gets stronger and stronger everyday help us to put down the sin that so easily entangles us and steals our passion.
I pray for pastor and his walk that you would flood him with a passion today that affects all of us around him. Bless the LIT conference and use it to ignite many souls.
I ask for your Spirit to be all over faith promise. Don’t let us make a move forward without your guidance. Thanks, God.
Thanks for the post.
@ Lee you are the man thanks love you
I go through waves in zeal. When I’m low on zeal, Mr. Holy Spirit helps me similar to how he helps me through my sins. Confess the lack of zeal, tell God that you hate it, fight the best you can, and Mr. Holy Spirit does the rest. Truthfully, yesterday was one of those days. Started the day in a spiritually miserable place, and this Christian “formula” worked for me yet again. I end the day having a really awesome time praising God singing and dancing with a bunch of middle school students. It’s awesome to be blessed like that.
Andy Kercher.
Great words to live by, guys. One Sunday’s message at FP quite a while ago, actually about a year or so now, that particular message led me to Kid’s Hope and being a mentor, and my life has not been the same since. So, yea, passion is a crucial part of serving, it puts the wind in your sails to want to get out there and make a difference. Thank God for all His blessings!
@ Andy praying for you. Stay strong
@ Cathey keep soaring
Passion is what drives people. All people. It’s important to keep that passion in ourselves and our walk with the Lord, but also to understand that it too is passion that is driving those things around us that make us fall. What if instead of resisting the world, we try to find their passion and direct it toward God. Ministry isn’t limited to youth and children’s church. I can’t help but to realize the passion much of this world has for entertainment and as Christ followers I feel like the best way we have found to deal with it is to ignore it, but how is that helping? I’m afraid people outside of the body of Christ feel that if they DO come in they will have nothing to bring to the table ministry wise.
…and I am not excluding myself from this. I really desire to know ways to help people find who they are in Jesus.
A passionate love for God creates a need to praise God and give him all of the glory. This is what he demands from his children. We must come to a point where our whole life is about the glory of God. We cannot participate in this glory unless it is all given to Him. There can be nothing self centered about this, it must be completely God centered.
God is the embodiment of glory and we must be nothing more or less than the reflection of His glory.