What is Passion?
• An intense urgency to accomplish your God given calling.
• Passion gives us desire—Desire + Determination = Destiny.
• Passion is the main difference in success and failure. (Colossians 3:23, NKJV)
• Passion is the #1 thing people in your class, at church, at work, and home are looking for.
• Passion is the difference between good and great.
• One person with passion is greater than 99 who only have an interest.
• Jesus was our greatest example of passion—Passion is Power.
Where does Passion come from?
• Christ gives us a new purpose, passion, and plan. (2 Corinthians 5:17, KJV)
• God puts the passion in our heart. (Nehemiah 2:12, NKJV; Jeremiah 20:9, NKJV; Psalm 4:7, NKJV; Isaiah 42:1, NKJV; Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26-27, NKJV)
What Passion can do for you. (1 Samuel 16:7, NKJV; NLT)
• Passion determines our fight.
• Passion directs our focus.
• Passion diminishes our fears.
• Passion directs our future.
• God is looking for people with a passion to love and serve Him. (Psalms 53:2, NKJV, AMP; 2 Chronicles 16:9b, NKJV)
How to have a Godly Passion
• You have to be in the Word and under the Word. (Jeremiah 20:9, NKJV)
• You have to believe the Word. (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV)
6 Reasons why we don’t have passion.
• We take God and His greatness for granted—we allow the supernatural to become natural to us.
• We allow others to drain us.
• We focus on what’s wrong instead of what’s right.
• We lose our vision.
• We allow other things to rob our time.
• We become passionate about the wrong things.