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New Year, New series

Last week - Who before Do, Spiritual Contributors before Consumers, Want to concentrate on Why Before What

Soccer Illustration, tired of going to Training, about my Glory- Kid said, he loved seeing me, got my passion back

This message is for anyone who may have lost their Passion.

Maybe you don’t understand you have been Marked for Purpose.

| Do you feel flat?

| Feel like you had passion, but now gone?

1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Title: Get your Passion back for your Purpose

my hope: You will regnite the spark, the fire, God has placed in you.

You will get your Passion BACK for your purpose.

**Prayer**

Truth

We are goin to break down;

What is Purpose?

How to get your passion back

Why you might have lost it

I want to look at Davids pupose, how he fulfilled his purpose, his passion, how he lost it and how that applies to us today.

Story about the purpose of an object - Drill bits, masonary and normal drill bits into a wall

If you are not fulfilling the purpose of something, you are abusing it, violating it.

Maybe you are not fulfilling the purpose that you were created for

1st point: Purpose isn’t for you.

Your purpose is God’s Purpose.

David understands this.

While Running from Saul, Hiding in a cave - He says this;

Purpose = Original Intent

Sin = Hamartano = Missing the Target = Missing the Purpose = Abuse and violation of our purpose + we fall into Sin because we long for validation outside of God.

Looking for “our” Purpose instead of realising that we are instruments of God’s Pupose.

We exist to serve God’s purpose

We do ‘us’ because we don’t understand that we have a purpose.

We have been Created FOR Heavan, but we live for THIS world.

Searching this world for something this world can not provide.

Your purpose is for God’s Glory.

Let’s look at David.

When Samuel came looking ,he wasn’t pursuin HIS dreams, or HIS Bucket list - Faithfully Serving;

He was faithfully serving, and God’s Purpose Found Him.

When he was asked to fight Goliath;

He wasn’t seeking a position, he was serving a purpose.-

who was David when he was chosen, he was bringing lunch to the warriors on the front line.

He wasn’t waiting for his big break, he was serving.

IF you want to serve God’s Purpose, Serve God’s People - David knew who he was

First thing you need to do to get passion back: Know you have been MARKED for HIS purpose and for HIS Glory

2nd point

So, if you have been marked, you have been placed where you are for HIM if your WHY is right - IF your motivation is right.

That’s something to get excited about.

2 types of people;

Those that let their circumstances effect their passion

Those that are passionate in every circumanstance

You know the ones;

Maccas - Happy Person | Lollypop Man

Enthusiasm, greek word; En Theos = In GOD | Filled with God

Passion is not something you work up, it’s something that is BRED FROM GOD.

It’s something that is provided from God.

Cmon | Steadfast, Immovable, Always abounding | Always passionate

Last week = What ever you DO!

Not WHAT you do but WHO you do it for.

Story about doing something for Emma - Cleaning

David - As a young Shepard Boy He was filled With Confidence, check this;

Look at his confidence - This is not from HIM, it’s RAW, born from God - how?

Walked with God DAILY

Trusted God DAILY

Worshipped God DAILY

Key word?

Daily.

But David went through 2 seasons - He Had it, and he lost it.

This king, on fire for the Lord, what happened?

In a time, when Kings were meant to go to WAR, he chose to stay home - Because of this disobedience, he found himself in a place he shouldn’t of been, looking at something he shouldn’t of been looking at and he did something that he never should have done.

He was meant to be in battle | Found himself on Rooftop - Looking at bathing woman | Her husband was at the war David should of been at | Slept with her, got her pregnant | When david sent for the man, he tried to cover His sin by getting the husband to sleep with wife, he was too righteous | David gave a letter to this man, to give to Joab the captain of army, to have him killed |

Committed Adultury - Murder - Displeased the Lord all mighty

Davids Adultary all started when he stopped spending time with God

David started serving HIS purpose and Not God’s Purpose

As a kid with enthusiasm; Ran into the battle to serve His God | With Apathy, on a rooftop walked into Sin to serve His Comfort

How did a man, so on fire for God, lose it?

Lose his EN THEOS?

He took his eyes OFF calling and put them ON comfort.

Which one best represents you?

Inspo and Action

You have a Purpose, a Calling, you have been Marked, where is your EN THEOS?

You have a GOD that is FOR YOU.

We drift, we drift toward apathy every day, why?

Because we have a real enemy.

We have real pulls of this world.

There is a deep passionate calling in you, that has somewhere along the line been substituted for comfort.

Which one are you?

David had it, then lost it, then Nathan confronted him - and he realises what has happened.

Remember your first love?

Who are you going to be? you have an INTENDED PURPOSE from GOD - 2 Types of people, people that know this, get their EN THEOS from GOD - and people that don’t.

Let their circumstances define where they are.

This year - to find your purpose, to find your why, get closer to God

I get under pressure all the time - all the time - What do I do?

I think about what God has done for me, I think about the moment of the car, I think about setting up that one chair.

I spend time with him - I let his word strengthen my soul, and I worship Him.

Not for what I see, but for who he is.

I think about the promises he has made me.

(Mirror Picture)

What ever your doing, do it for God and do it, from God.

Conclusion

What does your life look like with a bit more EN THEOS?