The Desire to be Passionate
First15 Devotional
First15
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🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re going to explore the desire we all share to be passionate. Everyone of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to something that truly matters. And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way, a way he’s perfectly wired each of us for. May each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today.
The main concept for this week is derived from The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert.
Our Scripture for today comes from Mark 12:30, and today's worship is Love You More by Harvest.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin wrapping up our week on the desires of every heart, today we're going to explore our innate desire to be passionate, |
| 0:12.0 | how you were made to live passionately and wholeheartedly, and how to direct that passion and energy towards the things of God. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Let's dive right in. |
| 0:23.6 | Our scripture for today comes from Mark 12, verse 30, which says, |
| 0:40.2 | And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind |
| 0:46.4 | and with all your strength. |
| 0:51.2 | Passionate devotion, love, and purpose captivate us. |
| 0:55.0 | As a culture, we cling to stories like Romeo and Juliet, Gone with the Win, Don Quixote, |
| 1:03.0 | the Count of Monte Cristo, and Les Miserables for the passionate actions of these characters. |
| 1:09.0 | These stories evoke within each of us a desire to be equally passionate |
| 1:13.1 | in our own lives. We long to give ourselves completely to something or someone that our lives |
| 1:19.3 | might have true purpose. Humanity is captivated by passion because we were created for it. God |
| 1:27.1 | created us with a desire to be passionate |
| 1:29.5 | that he might satisfy that desire with his plans. The Bible is the ultimate story of passion. |
| 1:37.7 | It's the story of God coming down to us and giving himself completely for us to the point of death. |
| 1:48.9 | Defeating death, he now desires to use us as passionate children to lead the whole world to salvation and freedom |
| 1:52.2 | that our lives would impact eternity. |
| 1:57.4 | You were made to be passionate. |
| 2:00.1 | But oftentimes church is the last place you think of as passionate and wholehearted. |
| 2:05.6 | So often we in vocational ministry are scared to lose our volunteers and congregation by asking too much of them. |
| 2:13.3 | So we never present them with an opportunity to live as passionately as God intends. |
| 2:19.3 | The truth is that God wants all of you. |
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