RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE

RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE

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. Love your neighbor as yourself. There’s no greater commandment than these.”
Mk. 12:30-31 (NIV)

A CHECKLIST OF 7 PASSION-KILLERS

1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE

“I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.” Isa. 49:4 (NIV)

2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT

“Each one should live His life with the gifts that the Lord has given him…” 1 Cor. 7:17 (Ph)

3. AN UNBALANCED LIFE

“Take the time and the trouble to keep yourself spiritually fit.”
1 Timothy 4:7b (Ph)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. AN UNSUPPORTED LIFE

“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)

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)

RESTORE YOUR FIRST LOVE

“You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you’ve fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.”
Rev. 2:4-5 (NIV)

1. “Remember the height from which you have fallen.”

Recall that to memory, those days when you were spiritually on fire and your passion was at a high point.

2. “Repent” It means to change your mind –

3. “… and do the things you did at first..” Start nourishing your spirit again.