THE POWER OF PASSION

 When we do something out of passion, a certain power is released. The game breaker for a fruitful Christian is his passion.

Whatever burns from within, can be smelled from without. Passion is the fire of the deep desire that attracts others.

When we are passionate about something, we attract others to walk with us. Passion can be wrongly interpreted, but for us, passion is represented by some key attitudes. We don't manifest all of these attitudes all of the time, but if we have passion they will be present from time to time: fervor, intensity, perseverance and tenacity, pleasure and joy in the work, the desire for innovation and new experiences and dreams of the heart.

1. Why is passion so important?

• It is the first step to any conquest

 • It activates potential

• It impacts the life of others, changing them

 • It establishes and maintains our priorities

• It makes the impossible happen

 • It is a spiritual protection

2. Why we lose passion

a. We lose passion when we allow the vision to become common and without value. How do you see the dream and vision for your own life?

What value do you put on it.

 We cannot speak of the vision in vain. Neither should we transform it into the object of jokes or associated it with unimportant things. 

b. We lose passion when we refuse to remain outside of our comfort zone

 c. We lose passion when we begin to depend on external motivation.  This is when need to go to a conference to get passion and then lose it.  Our motivation must be to remain in Christ- our original passion.

 d. We lose our passion when we permit ourselves to be contaminated with the apathy of the world. Don't seek personal comfort as your first priority. (Don’t seek personal gratification over consideration for others- loved ones, or God)

This is the death that that devil has injected into the world without God.

Remember the parable of the sower: cares of the world and riches are the things that cause us to lose passion, because these are the things that can, if we allow them to, come between us and our fellowship with God.

WE need to have the heart of the overcomer- as David did. How did he kill Goliath? Because he had revelation that his God was an overcomer, and there was no giant that was greater than God. Therefore he could conquer anything!

Passion means that we have to regain or never lose our first love for the Lord as He commanded the Church in Ephesus in Revelation.

Revelation 2:1-5  "To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ' These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:  ² "I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;  ³ "and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.  ⁴ "Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.  ⁵ "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place -- unless you repent.

 He commanded them to repent. And if they did, they could eat from the Tree of Life: Revelation is life, pray for revelation.

You cannot reap what you have not planted. We exaggerate what we have gone through, overvalue tomorrow and undervalue today. It is sad to see someone who has nothing to contribute today, because they paid no price yesterday.

Blessings Fatimah

So Who's looking after your body?

When I was asked to post a blog for our website- I felt that I was being spoken to in a foreign language!!
Then I tried to figure out what to write about,  so I thought I might as well get on my hobby horse! What an opportunity! So here goes!

It always suprises me when really focussed Christ followers seem to forget to look at the small print  in some well known verses: for example 1 Cor.6:19-20!
19.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
 20.  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

It clearly states that our body is bought at a price and therefore is no longer our own, but is a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. That realisation should make us desire to take care of our bodies, and to be good to ourselves. God is calling us all into divine health  and will give us divine strength because He lives in our bodies. Yet so many of us pay absolutely no attention to our diet and we allow ourselves to become fat, take no exercise and then ask for prayer for healing when the blood pressure and all the rest of our system goes haywire! The sad part is that church meetings do not help either with large helpings of chocolate biscuits and a host of sugary "goodies"(?) at fellowship time.
None of us would remotely consider putting a pile of rubbish or junk in a church building? Our bodies purchsed at a price by Jesus is a temple of the Holy Spirit! We often give the church building a good sweep make sure all is in order, but surely it is more important to take care of this temple- the one we carry around with us every minute of our lives? So why not honour what the Lord did for us and take care of our physical selves by starting to eat properly ...and stop putting junk food in God's temple??? Give it a small treat every day by doing some exercise...it makes us feel so good and keeps us in top form for all He has for us ....being in poor physical shape takes a toll on our spiritual and emotional wellbeing....its hard to make radical changes to lifestyle, but I would love to encourage you by helping with some easy steps.....so watch this space ........much love in Jesus Fatimah