// God doesn’t just want our
, He wants our
.
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Philosopher)
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
- Ferdinand Foch (French Military Strategist)
Zeal = Greek : spoude = “diligence, earnestness”
Fervor = Greek : zeo = “to boil with heat”
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for God will boil over when I give Him my
.
Isaiah 29:13 NIV
The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”
Isaiah 29:16 NIV
“You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,
‘You did not make me’?
Can the pot say to the potter,
‘You know nothing’”?
Isaiah 29:14 NIV
“Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
>> What does God do to capture our hearts?
1 John 4:13-16 NCV
We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit. We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God. And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
1) He sent His
.
1 John 4:14 NCV
We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
2) He has given us His
.
1 John 4:13 NCV
We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit.
“The Spirit of God makes the beauty of God, that’s revealed in the story of God, alive in your soul.”
- JD Greear
3) He makes our heart His
.
1 John 4:15 NCV
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside…
4) He lets us
.
1 John 4:15 NCV
…and that person lives in God.
John 14:20 NIV
[Jesus said,] “On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me and I am in you.”
5) He keeps
us His
.
1 John 4:16 NCV
And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love.
>> How do I follow God with my whole heart?
1)
your relationship with God.
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important.”
- C. S. Lewis
2)
and
all that God has done.
3) Connect your
and your
.
4)
in
.
1 Timothy 3:16 NCV
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for showing people what is wrong in their lives, for correcting faults, and for teaching how to live right.
5) Let the Lord bring you to a
.
2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV
The eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
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