• We become passive, complacent, sidelined in the mission. We teach ourselves to fail in action, protection, defending and leading. How do you think that sounds for a husband? Does that sound like it would make a great spouse and leader?
• Our very mission is at stake when we are passive. We are called on a great mission, the great commission, to partner and co-labor in the harvest of lost souls, to fight against the darkness of the world, we are called to die to self, sacrifice for others, confront fellow brothers in the body, stand against injustice. There is so much more than ourself at stake!
• I love the idea of our warfare because as soldiers, we have so many great cinematic pictures of manly movies or war movies. In all these movies - what are the soldiers doing? They are TRAINING, they are WORKING, they are ON MISSION 
• Jesus did not call us to backseat complacency when HE said it is FINISHED.. He was talking about the end game, the battle will be won.. HE WILL RETURN.. But in the meantime the battle is taking place with very high stakes!

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• Here’s how we change it – channel our zeal, our joy power to be fully focused.  For the joy set before him, he endured. He executed, he shouldered, he resisted. 
• God gives his children his Spirit to be able to move beyond passivity, complacency procrastination into a life that honors, executes and glorifies Him. 

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• We need to revitalize our prayer life. It should be full of worship, awe, ASKING,  delighting, and reflection. 

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• The Word must FEED our passion, it must minister to our hearts. 
• Litmus Test: if the word is just words in our mind that doesnt change us or transform us, we are listening with our mind NOT with our soul and heart!

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• PROVOKING one another to love and good works
• Be around people who are spiritually more mature, more gracious, more zealous, more devoted. 

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• Resistance for MORE, for something GREATER… 
• Sometimes that Bible, life group, church, intimate prayer time… it appears boring, unappealing, hard to get to, inconvenient, foreign. This is where our heart and mind must make the conscious decision to depriortize, justify and in faith know between the choice of netflix or devotion, one feeds / awakes the soul and the other puts it to sleep.. Makes the burner cold. 

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