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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

Stay Positive, Part 5: Get Your Passion Back

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual enthusiasm is contagious. If you’ve lost your passion, it’s time to get it back! Remember, it’s not what you do that makes it meaningful, it’s who you do it for. If you need a daily reminder of the passion you once had, join Pastor Craig Groeschel for Week 5 of Stay Positive!

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Well, I want to talk today to those of you who might have lost a little bit of your spiritual passion.

0:08.0

In fact, I'm guessing with the complications of this COVID season, there may be some of you that at one point in your life,

0:15.0

you found yourself really, really close to God.

0:19.0

You could sense His voice leading you.

0:22.0

You could feel His presence with you.

0:25.0

When you would read His Word, it was like God was speaking directly to you, but somewhere somehow along the way,

0:32.0

you feel like you lost some of your spiritual passion.

0:36.0

You lost some enthusiasm.

0:39.0

Maybe you lost a little bit of spiritual intimacy somewhere along the way.

0:44.0

If you find yourself a little bit less enthusiastic about the things of God today, then you once were,

0:52.0

this is a message for you, and I want to tell you, I also understand that struggle.

0:59.0

I'll give you a little piece of my story.

1:02.0

Like some of you, I was pretty wild in college.

1:06.0

Any of you have a wild streak somewhere?

1:08.0

Yeah, see their hands?

1:10.0

You could say I was building my testimony, okay?

1:14.0

That's kind of what I was doing.

1:16.0

And along the way, my sin caught up with me, and I started searching and seeking, and through a little Bible study,

1:24.0

my life was radically indescribably transformed by the grace of Jesus.

1:30.0

I went from wild party guy to bold evangelistic Jesus guy overnight, completely changed.

1:38.0

I wanted everybody to know, and so high on spiritual enthusiasm, but low on wisdom,

1:44.0

I just put Jesus all over anywhere I could.

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