SOR-017: Dealing with Passion

Show Notes for SOR-017: Dealing with Passion 00:00 Introduction 04:00 Are you experiencing passion. Do you consider yourself a person who is experiencing passion for God? 05:00 Are we passionate people? Passion ebbs and flows in our lives. If we lived in a place of constant passion then we would have no way of knowing when passion was on the increase. 8:00 Staying engaged and pressing hard into God is just a choice. It's his character that steadies me, not my passion. 10:00 Our emotions report what we're experiencing. Passion will flow from good times and bad. Sometimes when we look into our lives, it is not an emotion as much as it is desire to go deeper with God. Part of passion is a climate maker. Our passion should be to know him. 12:00 Passion like that for a football team is for the moment. The depth we have for God is for a love relationship is much deeper. it defines some of the fire inside of us. 13:00 Passion: Strong or barely controlled emotion. 14:00 What moments do we recall of a pure passionate response to God? 16:00 Herb shares a home encounter experience where a man fell onto a couch with a demon screaming and later exhausted, eventually testified that he never knew "normal" in his walk with God. 18:00 We should all feel passion when we see others encounter God. 20:00 There should be a balance between experience and faith. Not everything should be something we get emotionally carried away with just like not everything should be solely knowledge.