Where has your passion gone

Where has your passion gone?

You may have heard of some, even much of this before and sometimes from me. That’s not my problem. My problem, if problem it be, is to obey God and to continue to speak out that which He tells me speak out. And sometimes this means He wants things said again and again and again – until we actually get it.

So - Where has your passion gone?

PASSION For preaching the Gospel.

In a 2008 survey of over 9000 churches over 6000 admitted they had not preached the Gospel in the previous year.

PASSION For testimonies.

Last week on our Alpha course we had a young man, desperately lost in his old habits and addictions, gloriously saved after hearing our pastors testimony.

If you do your bit and God will do His.

STOP over thinking & over analysing everything – just get on with it.

So where is your passion?

PASSION For the lost or not yet Christians.

PASSION For healing.

PASSION For setting the prisoner free.

PASSION For the homeless.

PASSION For the unwashed & uncared for.

PASSION For the old, lonely, and friendless.

You protest, perhaps some of you a little bit too loudly, “We have passion for all these things. We are doing these things.” But I hear God say – “Really? Are you really doing what I asked you to do or are you doing what you think you can do?” But that is not all that God asked you to do.

If God has asked you, Where is your action? Where is your faith?

If God has asked you then Jehovah Jireh, He will provide.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

“God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil? You have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and you cannot change it.” (My changes ‘I’ to ‘you’.)

If God has asked you, He will provide whether you are a pauper or a millionaire. He is no mans debtor.

As the Nike Advert says – Just DO it !!