Pastor Jean

In Philippians 3:7-14, the apostle Paul turns his back on his old life and writes with great zeal and passion about his new life after making Jesus his Lord and saviour. Paul writes of his desire to press in to know Christ, His power and righteousness. Have you ever taken your spiritual temperature? Well, unlike your physical body it needs to be burning hot just like Paul! When Paul was giving instructions to the Roman Christians about what Christian behaviour should look like, he told them to keep their “passion toward Him (God) boiling hot!” (Rom 12:11; TPT). Acts 12:5 tells us that when Peter was imprisoned by Herod the church, “prayed very earnestly for him” (NLT), (some versions say fervently). It says something similar in James 5:17, “tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer” (TPT). It’s interesting what Jesus said through the apostle John’s exhortation to the church at Ephesus in the book of Revelation. “But I have this against you: you have abandoned the passionate love you had for me at the beginning” (Rev 2:4; TPT). Then when writing to the church at Laodicea he said they were, “neither frozen in apathy nor fervent in passion” (Rev 3:15; TPT) and as such He would spit them out of His mouth for being merely look warm. Let’s take these warnings seriously and get passionate, on fire for God!