This document discusses the importance of passion in the Christian life. It defines passion as a strong feeling or intense emotion that fuels compelling action. The document then outlines what God wants Christians to be passionate about, including having a passion for Him, prayer, God's word, souls, holiness, and worship. It explains that passion is what separates successes from failures and discusses why Christians can lose passion. It highlights the story in Revelation of the church in Ephesus losing its first love. Finally, it provides tips on how to restore passion, such as making prayer a priority and associating with passionate people.

1. Passion
Living A Life of

2. • O – OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S CALL
• P – PASSION / PURPOSE FOR LIVING
• 5 purposes of JCIS
• E – EMPOWERMENT COMING FROM THE
HOLY SPIRIT
– Charismata – operations of Gifts
– Exhousia – Delegated authority
– Dunamis – Power, Dynamite
• N – NURTURING NOURISHMENT
– Continuous education / building up
– Continuous Involvement
– Continuous Soul Winning

3. Passion
an intense emotion., strong
feeling, a great devotion and
intense conviction which fuels or
motivates us toward compelling
action.”
TEMP

4. • Do you have passion in
your life?
• What is your passion?

5. • It makes you good at something.
• Nothing great is ever accomplished and
sustained in life without passion.
• It is what energizes your life.
• Passion makes the impossible possible.
•
Why do I need
Passion

6. Nothing great in the
world has ever been
accomplished without
passion.”

7. Passion is what
the church is
missing today!

8. • Our passion is misdirected..
• We become passionate about the things of
the world...
Satan has stolen
our passion
And the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other
things entering in, choke the word, and it
becometh unfruitful. Mark 4:19

9. Ps 69:9
My zeal for God and his work burns
hot within me. TLB
• Passion is a God given emotion
• Passion is a burning desire towards the
things of God
• Passion is what makes us good at something
God wants us to be
passionate....

10. Passion is what separates
the:
• Men from the boys and the women from
the girls.
• Prayers from the players.
• Intercessors from the interferers.
• Contenders from the pretenders.
• Complimenters from the complainers.
• Supporters from the reporters, having to
constantly broadcast what’s wrong with
the church.

11. What does God
wants us to be
passionate about!

12. He wants us to
have a Passion for
Him and his work
Ps 69:9
My zeal for God and his work
burns hot within me.

13. Mark 12:30-31
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and
with all your soul and with
all your mind and with all
your strength.'

14. A Passion
For Prayer
1 Thess 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

15. A Passion For
God’s Word
Acts 17:11-12
Now the Bereans were of more noble
character than the Thessalonians, for they
received the message with great eagerness
and examined the Scriptures every day to see
if what Paul said was true.

16. A Passion
For Souls
They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the
city, thinking he was dead. But after the
disciples had gathered around him, he got up
and went back into the city. Acts 14:19-20

17. A Passion For
Holiness
1 Peter 1:14-16
As obedient children, do not conform to
the evil desires you had when you lived in
ignorance. But just as he who called you is
holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is
written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

18. A Passion For
Worship
Acts 16:22-25
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas,
and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and
beaten. After they had been severely flogged, they
were thrown into prison, and the jailer was
commanded to guard them carefully. Upon receiving
such orders, he put them in the inner cell and
fastened their feet in the stocks. About midnight Paul
and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God,

20. PASSION IS WHAT SEPARATED:
A. Mary and Martha
B. Demas and Timothy
C. Cain and Abel
D. Saul and David
E. Rich young ruler and disciples
F. Judas and Peter

21. PASSION IS WHAT SEPARATED:
The success stories are separated from the
failures, not by:
• Perfection
• Or pedigree
• Or talent
• Or wealth or status

22. WHY DO CHRISTIANS LACK ZEAL?
1. Because we have allowed something
precious to become familiar, to become
ordinary, everyday, common.
2. The need for approval.
3. Apathy: We lost our Love.
4. People affecting you.

23. Matthew 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound,
the love of many shall wax cold.

24. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
PASSION IS LOST?
:: Revelation 2:1-7 ::
1Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write;
These things saith he that holdeth the seven
stars in his right hand, who walketh in the
midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2I
know thy works, and thy labour, and thy
patience, and how thou canst not bear them
which are evil: and thou hast tried them which
say they are apostles, and are not, and hast
found them liars:

25. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
PASSION IS LOST?
:: Revelation 2:1-7 ::
3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my
name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not
fainted. 4Nevertheless I have somewhat against
thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5Remember therefore from whence thou art
fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will
remove thy candlestick out of his place, except
thou repent.

26. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
PASSION IS LOST?
:: Revelation 2:1-7 ::
6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds
of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the churches; To him that overcometh will
I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the
midst of the paradise of God.

27. HOW DO I RESTORE
PASSION TO MY LIFE?
1. Make sure you have a fire place.
2. Realize that fire changes its surrounding
environment.
3. Associate with passionate people.
4. Pray for passion.

28. Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer,
being watchful and thankful.