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2. Definition Passion (from the Latin verb patī meaning to suffer) is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something.emotiondesire a positive affinity or love, towards a subject.affinity Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20132

3. Passion Indicators What do I talk about?What do I daydream about?What have I enjoyed achieving?What gives me the most fun?What has made a difference in my life?What energizes me?Does it glorify God & build others? Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20133

4. Passion killers Unbalanced schedule Unused talent Unconfessed sin Unresolved conflict Unsupported lifestyle Unclear purpose Undernourished spirit Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20134

5. Human passion vs. Divine passion Human passion tends to be Inconsistent temporary. Divine passion is consistent, everlasting, and powerful. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20135

6. Purpose: Phil 1:20-26 Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20136

7. Christian Philosophy To live for Christ.Bring glory to His name.Seek to have fellowship with Him.Decision to live or die.His role in Philippi. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20137

8. Acute Focus: Phil 3:10-14 My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained this – that is, I have not already been perfected – but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20138

9. Acute Focus It was his focus, his aim to know Jesus. The Greek word for “to know” is ginosko- to indicate an intimate knowledge of someone else. The word suggests the difference between knowing about someone and truly knowing them personally. Our goal—to intimately and experientially know Jesus. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 20139

10. Selfless: Col 1:26-29 Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201310

11. Paul’s claims Paul proclaimed Christ Paul warned everyone. Taught everyone with all wisdom. Desired to present everyone mature in Christ. He toiled with this motivation. Struggled with all the energy that the Lord gave him. The Lord worked powerfully through Paul. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201311

12. Surrender: Acts 9:1-6 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201312

13. Transformation Saul underwent transformation.Persecutor to Passionate follower.Jesus sacrificial love.His gratitude for salvation.Slavery to freedom! Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201313

14. Intimate: Phil 3:4-11 ………. 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201314

15. Intimate Paul could boast of: His religious heritage, illustrious ancestry, religious party, devoted zeal. Paul gives up all these things for the sake of Christ. What does it mean to us? What would you consider important to you? Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201315

16. Obedient:1 Cor 9:19-23 Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201316

17. Obedient Purifying himself. Priority is the gospel. Preach without expecting. People focused. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201317

18. No Quitter : 1 Cor 5:9-10 Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201318

19. No Quitter Influential.Accomplishments.Author. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201319

20. Paul teaches us……… Purpose Acute Focus SelflessSurrenderIntimateObedientNo quitter Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201320

21. Glory Ministries Trust Confidential 201321 Passion