Understand Your Passion

 

    What are your passions in life?  Do they bring you closer to God or further away?  Do you use them for the church or yourself?  To find fulfillment in life, you need to find a way to utilize everything God has given you to serve Him in the church and bring people to Him.

    Passion also applies to people.  There are people that energize and you want to be around.  Then then there are people that you struggle to have a relationship with or want to be around.  God put both types in your life for a reason.  Demonstrate your passion in what you do to work with different personalities, spiritual gifts, and abilities.  It will require flexibility and an open heart to adapt.  

    How do you demonstrate your passion?  How does your passion come out?  Does it drive you to do good or evil?  There is the law of attraction which states what you like from what you do not like.  Your passion will drive you toward what you like creating more passion.  In ministry, that is good, but remember things are not always passionate.  Sometimes you have to get comfortable in the mundane too.

    Why have you gotten involved in ministries before?  Was it because you were passionate about it?  Were filling a void?  Did you do it because someone you respect ask you to?  Your motivation matters.  You will not endure in a ministry that you don't discover a passion for.  It is okay if your passions move you in a different direction as long as it is being led by Jesus.  

    What do you desire to pursue?  Are you looking for your place in the church?  Are you applying your personality type, spiritual gift(s), abilities, and passion to discover your ministry?  When you understand these, what ministry comes to mind?  Understand your passion and pray over it?  Maybe talk to your pastor to see if he can help you mold it into something for the church.  

    Your walk with God and ministry is a journey.  It does not happen over night.   You can pick up where someone else left off.  You can support someone that needs help.  You can start something new.  Your journey is not going to look like anyone else's journey.  That is good.  It is proof that your relationship with God is unique.  The most important thing is that your passion follows Him.

Psalm 37:1-4, Proverbs 16:3, Matthew 6:31-34, Mark 12:29-31, Romans 12:9-13, & Colossians 3:18-25