Cultivating A Passion for God

Hi, this is Pastor Daniel Bracken. You're listening to Kings Alaska Podcast. I hope the Word encourages you and you get a touch from God that brings transformation and equips you to experience life with people, power and purpose. Thank you for joining us. Enjoy the Word.

Stand up. On your feet. Numbers, chapter 25, Verse 10.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, phineas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. The priest has turned back my wrath from the children of Israel because he was zealous, zealous with my zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in my zeal. Therefore, behold, I give him my covenant of peace. And it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of everlasting priesthood. Because he was zealous for his God made atonement the children of Israel.

Let's pray. Gracious, awesome, mighty God, we thank you for what you've done all day today and what you'll do now in this service. May we be for your forever changed in Jesus name. Amen. Turn to somebody and say, are you on fire?

The word zeal or zealous in the English dictionary is defined as fervor, enthusiasm, eagerness, passion. Zeal and passion are two words that are synonymous. They mean the same thing when directed toward God. It's a spirit ignited zeal. Now you can be zealous for things that are not of God.

That's not what I'm talking about. Numbers chapter 25 is a powerful example of what will happen when someone's used by the Lord and being zealous for him. It says in Romans chapter 12 and verse 11, not lagging, not lagging in diligence, but fervent in the spirit. That's the Greek word right there for zeal. Zo, to boil, to burn.

John 2 and 17, zeal for your house has eaten me up. That's quoting Psalm 69, Titus 2 and 14. A people zealous for good worth, passionate to do good things for God. 2nd Corinthians, chapter 9 and verse 2. Zeal has stirred up the majority in that context.

The zeal, the passion the church has stirs people up. If you get, you know, when, when Pastor Kimmy Gob came up here, she's like, I'm on fire. You could, like, feel it. It was like a little bonfire came up to the front. Zeal spreads.

Passion is contagious. Zeal is contagious. Bad company corrupts good character. Well, what's the opposite of that? Good company brings blessing, releases good character.

I suppose you could say so. When you hang around zeal, when you hang around people that are on fire, it gets you more on fire.

That's the on fire section.

Zeal or passion, if it's not grounded in truth, is a big problem.

It can be dangerous. Zeal, spiritual fire, zeal without knowledge is a misdirected fire. And we've seen how many of you know there's. There's people that are insane. The guy that tried to kill our president, it was a lot of zeal.

Very misdirected. Thank God he was stopped. Can I get it? Amen.

Romans 10:and 2. Or better than the witness that they have zeal, but not according to knowledge. So there's a correction there. You can have zeal, not according to knowledge. Galatians 1:14.

Being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. Now, this is Paul talking about himself, that he was more zealous for the traditions of his fathers. It's a criticism. He's saying he missed it. He didn't see really who the Lord was.

He was more zealous for his tradition of his fathers. So zeal can be misdirected, but zeal can certainly be directed rightly by truth. The negative word zeal can also be used for envy or jealous jealousy. Zelios can be a destructive word also. First Corinthians 3.

3. They are envy. They are envious. Strife and divisions among you. I love that verse of Scripture.

It says, I have to talk to you like mere men. You're behaving like mere men, for there's envy, jealousy, strife among you. I can't talk to you as spiritual, but unspiritual. You're behaving like mere men. Think about that.

Are you a man? Are you a woman? The answer is yes, because there's only two genders. So are you a man or a woman? Boy or girl?

Yes. Okay. Well, then, what is a mere man? What. What is a mere woman?

Mere common. Now think. Think about this. First Corinthians 3. It's not the.

It's not the. The text I'm looking at specifically, but Paul's talking to them, saying, you're behaving with jealousy. You're behaving in a way that's not right. You're acting like a regular person. What is an.

What is a regular person? Someone who's not filled with the spirit. Someone who's not born again. Someone who's not red. Who's not filled with the power of God.

Knowing the Word. Is there any Other. Any supernatural people in here besides me? All of us are to be supernatural. Really?

Again, the zealous section.

James 3 and 14. You have bitter envy. That's the word there, Zelios. Again, wisdom that does descend from above. There's two kinds of wisdom.

Earthly wisdom, which is devilish, and the wisdom from above, which brings peace. So jealousy, rivalry and selfish ambition. Is. Is that word used in its negative content. So let me ask you, what are you passionate about?

I mean, what really moves your needle? What gets you excited? I mean, we. Again, Pastor Kimmy. What was she excited about?

She's excited about having 300 children at Kids camp. She's like, oh, I'm on fire. Yeah, you can tell.

What are you passionate about? What? What gets you up in the morning? What. What are you just like, oh, yeah, ice cream maybe?

Let's look at the text. What's happening here is that Israel is on the brink of going into Canaan's land. They're. They're just about to go into Canaan's land. And the Moabites and the Midianites tried to put a curse on Israel by using a false prophet by the name of Balaam.

Balaam is a false prophet that was spoken to by a donkey. So before you get all prideful that God used you, thank God that he even uses donkeys.

And so he goes to pronounce a curse. He does it three different times. Balaam wanted to get paid and he couldn't curse. You can't curse what God has blessed. You can't curse what God has.

Say it with me. You can't curse what God has blessed. I've had people like. Pastor, what are we going to do? I heard there's witchcraft headed for the church.

I feel bad for those little witches and warlocks because an undeserved curse returns to its center just like a darting swallow in proverbs. I don't worry about the people trying to curse anything. I don't worry about any of that. All we need to do is love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul and strength, and live in a place of. Of dependence on him and continual repentance.

Anybody repent today? Continually walking with him, obeying him, trusting him, leaning not on understanding, knowing that he makes our path straight. There is nothing that can stop the church except you. You can bring a curse on yourself. Jesus said.

Jesus said, Satan is coming. The prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me. In the Book of John, I think it's chapter 14. But I might not be right.

Definitely the book of John. He has no hold on me. Talking of Satan. So Satan has no hold on me. What does that even mean?

That means he could have a hold on somebody. Obviously he doesn't have a hold on Jesus. Jesus said he's coming, but he has no hold on me, has no part of me. He has no ability to touch me. Why?

Because he's the son of God. Here's the question. Does Satan have an ability to touch you? Does he have any hold on you? Do you have any stronghold, do you have any way of thinking?

Do you have a behavior that needs to be modified? That's opening the door for the ugly one to come and beat the fool out of you up one side and down the other? Does it? Does Satan have a hold on you?

So what Balaam did, Back to numbers 25, he said, you can't touch them, they're blessed. They're what? They're blessed. He said, however, you get those girls from the Midianites and you, you send your women all up into that camp and the men will crumble and they'll, they'll commit sin with those women and then you will curse. They'll curse themselves.

Go ahead and do it. And he sends them in to the camp.

You know what happens? The men cave in. The easiest target was the men. And so the Moabite and the Midianite women seduced the Israelite men. They commit adultery and they worship the God of BAAL is what happens.

They did what Balaam suggested. And what ended up happening is that 24, a plague breaks out. 24,000 people are killed at the point where this is the context of what we read.

And in the middle of this, this moment, the whole assembly is repenting. Now Mayor Edna, would you and Noel come and help me? Would you also help me, my precious brother and anybody else on my leadership team. You're over 50, I'm not.

Would you guys help me? But you could both come here. Just come, come and, come and make a, come and make a little, a little line right here. Come and make a little line, just shoulder to shoulder. But he has the wisdom of a hundred year old.

He's might not be over 50, but he's, he's filled with wisdom. So understand what's happening. What's happening is there. Mose. I'll be Moses.

You look more like Moses. So too young. You're a young Moses. I don't know, you kind of Moses like, okay, too old.

So sin is broken out. All the elders understand what's taken place? It's. They. They've broken God's law and there is a curse on the land.

24,000 people have been killed. It's a plague that's broken out. And right in the middle of their national repentance, that's what's happening. National repentance come seas too. Except they didn't have a child.

So there. All right. He take. He takes his girl. Don't.

You are not a Midianite. You're a woman of God. All right. Amen. He takes his girl as they're repenting.

And he walks right by, bold and brash, like, oh, yeah. We go into the tent, bro, right in front of the elders. That's what happens. Bald is brass.

Put your hands together for these guys. I just illustrating it because. Because a lot of people don't get it. So there they are, the repenting. And here comes Brother Fornicator with his girl in tow.

Like, oh, yeah, what you gonna do about it? I mean, it's. It's crazy. Boldness.

Phineas is this young man confronted what. What seemingly no one else would. Or maybe he acted quicker than the others. He refused to stay passive.

I'm going to tell you that I refuse to stay passive.

I'm beginning to mature. But I'm always going to keep my zeal. I've learned some things. I'm going to teach you how to cultivate zeal for God. You need to cultivate it.

If you're not on fire, it's not God's fault. Just spit everywhere. Did you see that? If you're not on fire, it's not God's fault. She didn't want to spray you.

If you're not on fire, if you're not passionate for God. Passionate for the word. If you're not passionate in prayer and you just. Do you think God, oh, that's my personality, man. You're like, you need your woods wet.

Anybody ever try to start a fire with wet wood? I remember years ago, I don't know where we were, but we were in. We were in. We were in Hawaii, and this Alaskan came and they said, hey, can you help us start a fire? We got like, you know, we know you Alaskan, as I was before I moved here.

And the guy's like, sure. And he wanders out to Dr. Morocco's shed. We were staying at his house, and he shows up with gasoline and oil. He's like, that's how we do it in Alaska. Diesel baby just started.

We just need a tire, a set of rubber turbos tire on fire. We'll start. Won't be able to put that thing out for sure. I thought it was like some special blessing. Over the wood, the.

The Alaskan brought diesel fuel.

Now Phineas refused to stay passive. He was on fire. He was filled with zeal for God's honor. If you look at the text, and in a moment, as judgment fell and this rebellion, this open rebellion is before the. The elders, that was just represented.

What he did was he didn't just blink at it, he didn't just wink at it. He did something that brought covenantal peace. There's covenantal blessings, and if you get outside of that, you can end up cursed. And in this text, his actions stopped a plague. His actions stopped the plague that was breaking out.

And he's commended. Look at, look at numbers 25.

And look at verse 11.

Phineas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest has turned back my wrath from the children of Israel because he was zealous. And with my zeal among them, so that he did not consume the children of Israel. My zeal. Pastor Kirsten, let me see your new international version.

Verse 11. Thank you, sir, so much. Said a little bit differently.

Lord said to Moses, Phineas, there we go. Son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. The priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites because he was zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that my zeal did not put an end to them. He was zealous for God's honor. That's quite a thought.

Are you like that? Are you zealous for God's honor? Are you zealous for the move of God? Are you zealous for the church? Are you zealous for the things that matter to God?

Phineas was. And he stopped this plague. And he's commended right there. He had a heart for God. These are some keys.

He honored God. Phineas is a type of Christ. And then we're going to get into how to cultivate passion. And I'm not going to preach real long to you. Just a few more minutes.

Now, Phineas is a type of Christ who's willing to intervene. That's what Jesus did. Jesus intervene. In fact, it is said Jesus quoted, zeal for the house of the Lord has consumed me, has eaten me up. Zeal, passion.

Phineas intervened and so did Jesus. Phineas stop the judgment. So did Jesus. For all who believe in him, he said, he's another Christ like figure. Jesus had a heart for his father was Concerned about his honor, he showed complete obedience to the father.

He exposed hypocrisy. He showed compassion, the compassion of heaven. Jesus showed it was compassionate to do what Phineas did. What did he do? Well, he followed those two into the tent with a javelin and skewered them through with one shot.

Shows you how close they were.

I believe that God wants to raise up. Phineas's among us, spiritually speaking. Don't be going to get a javelin and hunt down your next door neighbor. Can I get an amen? It's a picture of cleansing the temple, and that's what Jesus did.

Jesus cleansed a temple. He flipped over the money changers. They were ripping people off from worship, and he got angry about it. You know. You know, righteousness gets angry sometimes.

All right, the devil can rob you very simply tonight. God speaking to you. Where's your level of zeal? Where's your level of passion? And have you allowed for the enemy to rob you?

I've been robbed before, in the natural as well as by the devil. Spiritually.

One of the things that can cause a robbery of our zeal and our passion, if you're taking notes, is ignorance of God's word. Ignorance of God's word. I used an illustration of a young lady here recently who I've seen fire in her eyes in a way that I haven't seen before. And it's because she's studying the Word like she's never studied it before. And the more you get the end of the Word, the more you read the Word, it will illuminate your heart and set you on fire.

I've known people that have a really an aversion to reading the Word. In fact, I won't ask you to raise your hand, but there are some that are even here and online by word of knowledge, that when you read the Word, you fall asleep. That is called a spirit of slumber. It's a demon spirit. Not feeling the love over here.

Except for my brother Moses on the front row going over here. There's a spirit of slumber that can come on you. So if you open the Word and you're instantly like, it's more than your sleep apnea there. You said, well, I'm tired. No, no, no, no, no.

I mean, like every time you open the Word, you just read a little bit and then you're falling asleep, there is a spirit of slumbers, a demon spirit that can come. It's called a spirit of slumber. There are things that can rob you, hinder you from learning and growing in the Word. The Word is so very important. And when you get revelation from God's Word, it ought to cause a revolution in your spirit.

It ought to move you. If you're not moved by God's Word, then something's wrong. And then you should see what it is. Ask God what it is. Now I've known people that have been so depressed because they just grew up that way and they've attributed their personality to being low key and, and like depressed.

I'm just like that. No, you know, you're dealing with things. You need healing. Some people's lives are so burdened by the enemy that they didn't. They think it's actually part of their personality.

They don't really even know who their true personality is because they've been bound for so long.

Ignorance to God's Word can cause you to not have zeal. But then the opposite of that is true. The opposite is what? If you learn God's Word, it will put a fire in you that cannot be put out.

One of the hindrances to zeal that the enemy brings is delay. It's two ways. I want to see that tonight. One, delay. Where there's a delayed answer to prayer.

So you get discouraged. Hope deferred, the Bible says, makes a heart sick. So you can pray for something that happened and has delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed and soon. Instead of embracing whatever is taking place in God and trusting his leadership, you start getting an attitude towards God like don't you even hear my prayer anymore? Don't you even know where I am?

How come this hasn't happened? And you start getting offended at God because he didn't come through for you, when in fact God's on the move. Or you know, he could be trying to deal with you and your attitude problem, but you're not receiving it.

And so there can be delays because of demonic power, that can be delays because of strongholds. And other people, there can be delays because of strongholds. In you there can be lays delays for lots of reasons. So discerning which one it is so that you can change and become more like Jesus or you take authority over that thing. Listen, some of you are another word of knowledge.

You're partnered with somebody in your business and because you're partnered with him or her or that person who's not spiritually minded, doesn't know Christ, doesn't love God, doesn't tithe, doesn't, doesn't give. And it's a significant part of partnership. And you wonder why you have so many problems in your business. Duh. Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

He said, well, I'm not even going to work. My, my boss is a pagan. I'm not going to work for him. No, you should keep your job. I'm talking about significant.

Who knows, maybe you'll be used of God to reach your, your employer. I'm talking about significant partnerships, certainly marriage. But he looks so good. Oh, give it 30 years.

And all that fades away by the way, in the midst of strife and pain and difficulty, delay. So there can be delayed delay because of many different things. But many times God is, is moving on your behalf and you just have to wait. There's three answers to prayer. Say it with me.

There's three answers to prayer. Yes. No, wait, three answers. Another thing that can cause us to lose our zeal, cause us to lose our passion is defilement. Dr. Morocco, my pastor or senior global pastor has written a whole book on defilement.

You end up defiled, which can take place through relationships, can take place vicariously, can take place by seeing something on the Internet or, or through a movie. If you end up defiled, then that can cause you to really to be in trouble. Years ago I, I was a part of the connect department which is, did a lot of follow up and help people grow in God. It's the beginning of becoming a pastor. And there was a family that I was trying to get in church.

I would visit them and visit them and they didn't come in. And finally they started coming and it was great. And so one Sunday morning, I've got my suit and tie on and they're in church. I was so excited to see them and their kid didn't really like me, you know. You know, some babies are just really warm and I don't know, this kid just, he cried every time I showed up.

I don't know, I don't know what that was about. He's like, he didn't like me. Karen said, I think it's your blue eyes. I'm like, I don't know. I just try to greet the child with my eyes closed.

Hi.

So they're in church and they, I see them, I'm like, hey, what's up? They're like, what's up Pastor? Hey. Like, ah. And the, and the child's like, I'm like, oh, I'm anointed this morning.

Baby reaches towards me. I take the child in my arms and they're like, wow, he never does that. I'm like, yeah, wow, awesome. And the kid just goes and throws up all over me. I mean, the kind that hits my chest and ricocheted off and sprayed everybody else that was watching just like a fire hose.

Does anybody. Kid just went. Just fire hose coming out of his mouth. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I was like.

And the kid's like, got you. No, that's not what happened. He was sick, threw up on me. I'm like, there's your kid.

So I immediately go to the bathroom and I thank God I had a T shirt on. I stripped off my shirt. I went and got. Got another shirt. Defilements like that, it's like getting puked on.

It's just like, ah. It can happen in relationship. It can happen spiritually. It can happen a lot of different ways. And if you're defiled, you can lose your zeal.

So what happens if I'm defiled? How about this? What are you gonna do when you're defiled? What do you mean by that? Dr. Janelle Morocco went to my house talking to my teenage son Daniel, who I think's probably 13.

She says to him, hey, Daniel. He's like, yeah. What do you do when you're defiled? Not if you're defiled. When you're defiled because you can't live in this world and not experience a spiritual vomit that can come on you through reels, through your phone, through relationship, come on through the news.

And he says, tell my dad and mom. Good answer.

The first song my daughter ever wrote ever.

I'll never forget it. If you don't know what to do, just tell your mom and dad. If you don't know what to do, just tell your mom and dad. If you don't know what to do, just tell your mom and dad and trust in the Lord. That's Hannah's very first song, but she's probably not so happy about me sharing it with you tonight.

But that's what you do when you're defiled. You talk about it. You get somebody to pray for you, and you repent and you get away from the. Get away from the puke. Everybody say, get away from it.

Because that can steal your zeal. You can lose your zeal by self satisfied, self satisfaction. Constantly living this, living that way. All right, what must we be zealous for? Can I have keys, please?

You got to be passionate. You got to be zealous for this house, for God's purposes in the earth. Build your life around serving him, loving him, passionate for his presence. Passionate, zealous for his presence. There's nothing like the presence of the Lord cultivated in your home.

Put on worship music, sing, shoe dance, even if you're rhythmically challenged.

His presence in us personally, as believers of the temple where. The temple, the Holy Spirit, are you aware that he lives on the inside of you? If you're born again and do you walk in such a way that you. You're sensitive to that? How many of you ever felt grieved, felt like somebody kicked you in the gut?

How many ever did something where you felt like, oh, Lord, I'm so sorry, be sensitive to that? Because if you ignore that all the time, then what you're getting actually is a hardened heart and you'll lose your zeal, you'll lose your passion. We need to be zealous and passionate for what Jesus is passionate for souls.

I don't know if you've ever led anybody to Jesus, but I hope if you've been here for any length of time, I've stirred you, taught you, and equipped you in such a way that you would lead people to Christ. The number one way that this church grows is one on one. People inviting people, reaching out to people. A boldness to be like Phineas, to confront not with a javelin, but with truth and with love to confront people. Because there's a plague breaking out among us.

Who's gonna. Who's gonna do something? I am. I am. I'm.

I'm gonna reach to the lost. What if they don't like you? I don't really care. This is not about a. Like how many likers you have or popularity contests.

It's about pleasing the Lord and living for him. And again, zeal and passion is not about personality. It's more of an attitude.

Romans again, 12, verse 11. Not lagging in diligence, but fervent in the spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient tribulation, Patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer. You know, if you learn to serve, you help other people and reach out to other people to set you on fire. The Sermon on the Mount is the bylaws of the kingdom. Matthew 5, 6, and 7.

If you. If you live the Sermon on the Mount, it will produce a vibrancy in your heart. You'll just. You'll just feel closer to the Lord. Matthew 5, 6, and 7, do it.

Do Matthew 5, 6 and 7 is totally contrary to your normal nature, but if you learn to live it, there's a fire that'll start on the inside of you serve. Be joyful. Everybody say, be joyful. Be patient. Be faithful in prayer.

You can't get away from this. Encourage one another.

Hebrews 3 and 13. But exhort one another daily. Lest any of you be hardened through sins. Deceitfulness.

You know, I got very encouraged today. I just got planted certain. I'm surround myself with people that encourage me. Some of you are surrounded by people that don't really like you that much. Why would you do that?

I'm surrounded by people that speak life into me.

We all need that. Everyone needs that. Dr. David, you encouraged me so profoundly today. And somebody else came up to me and said, hey Pastor. And just gave me a word of encouragement.

I thought, all right, come on. I thought, what is my problem? Struggling with some stuff. I'd like this heaviness. Then I figured it out.

Sometimes I'm a little dull. Anybody else besides me? Sometimes you're a little dull. Just going through some grief. Just carrying a little bit of griefs process.

Thank God for people that encourages. Do you have anybody like that? If you don't, you might. You might lose your passion. You might lose your seal, your.

Your zeal. Study the word. Gosh, write that down. Study the word.

Second Timothy 2, 15. Be diligent to present yourselves. Approved to God. A worker who does not need to be ashamed. Rightly dividing the word of truth.

This is a command. Be diligent. Luke 24:45. And he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures as a road to Emmaus. These disciples are walking with Jesus.

Didn't even know that he's Jesus. And he opens their mind to understand the Scriptures. And, and, and they said, did not our hearts burn within us after they received communion? Their eyes were open. They're like it was the Lord.

And they said, we should have known because our hearts burned within us. Your heart will burn within you when you spend time with God. When you spend time in the Word and he opens your understanding. Come on. It's not like reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.

It's not like reading some Facebook post. You know, thank God for all the powerful preachers online.

But I've found that many times those things can rob you from having your own time with God in the Word. When God wants to speak to you himself.

Oh, Ephesians 1 and 17.

That the God of the Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, of the knowledge of him. That the eyes of your understanding be enlightened, may know the hope of His Calling. And what are the riches of his glory, of his inheritance in the saints? A spirit of wisdom and revelation. When you understand who he is, oh my gosh.

When you understand who he is and who you are, it will set you on fire.

Go to Colossians 3.

I talked to my friend Jason Adair this past week. Jason Adair was the just this incredible preacher. Started preaching when he was 15, 14 or 15 years old. By the time he was 17, he had more revivals in the Church of God than, than most his father. He would go and have these revivals and come home to his father, who was drunk.

And his father said, if you keep preaching, I'm a beat you beyond all recognition. And he took beatings, but he kept preaching. His mother tried to protect him. This is his testimony.

He kept doing revivals. He'd do revivals every weekend and go to school during the week. And they do revivals every weekend. And every weekend they come back to abuse. If his dad was in the mood or if his dad was in the mood, he let him go.

And it went on for quite a while. One time he comes back from having a week long outpouring, hundreds of people gotten saved, filled with the Holy Ghost. He comes back and he sits down in the chair in the living room and his father came, pulled the gun out of the dresser, put it straight to his head and said, I'm done with you doing it. Was drunk. He said, I'm done with you doing this revival stuff.

And Jason started praying in the Holy Ghost and the fire of God fell and his father crumbled under the fire. And the power of the Holy Spirit repented, put the gun down, got gloriously born again and is a part of his ministry. I think he's gone to be with the Lord now. It's a part of his ministry.

Colossians 3 and 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Is the word of God dwelling in you. I mean, how are you going to be on fire if you don't have the fire? God, my word is like a fire.

My word is like a hammer. If you don't have the fire on the inside of you, how are you supposed to have, have a spiritual zeal when you're not in the Word? Oh, he said, I am in the Word. Good, then you know what I'm talking about. It brings fire.

Jeremiah, your word is like fire. Shut up in my bones. They threw him in a pit, gonna kill him, but he did it anyway. Colossians 3:16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

How much wisdom? All wisdom. Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, Singing with grace in their hearts to the Lord. Can I. I gotta tell my family. Can you stop texting?

For God's sake? It's coming all over my stuff. You're distracting me. Lift your hands to Jesus.

Stop texting.

So why don't you turn off your. Your iPad? Because I. I can't do that right now.

Of course. They're going to get that in about four minutes. Look at verse 17. And whatever you do in word deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. And set your mind your appetite on the things above.

Jason and Darius. I talked to him last, last week. He said, oh, I remember what a friend of mine said. You should share this with your people and with your staff. I said, okay, what is it?

He said this. It's a quote. If you're not impressed with who you are in Christ, then you haven't seen him lately.

Let me say it again. If you're not impressed with who you are in God, then you probably haven't seen him lately. There is a connection between your fire and your walk with God. Oh, when they came and they, they, they, they said, silver and gold have I none but such that I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Right. Rise up and walk. And they took him by the hand and they yanked him and his ankles are made straight. They get persecuted, thousands get saved. They're brought before the religious people, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin.

And they noted their zeal, they noted their boldness. And it said, they, they took note that they had been with Jesus. You know, one of the greatest ways to get set on fire is spend time with the one who is fire. Spend time with the one who's the author. Spend time with the one who's the finisher.

Spend time with the one who's more than able. Spend time with the one who walked on water. Spend time with the one who's got the answer, the One who has all wisdom and the. The originator of zeal. The originator of passion.

His name is Jesus. And if you'll spend time with him, he'll set you on fire. There's no real reason not to be on fire. Lift your hands to heaven. Be set on fire.

Now. Let the power of the Holy Spirit come upon you right now. Break off defilement. Break off all discouragement. Break off all delay.

Break off everything that's in the way of setting a blaze to your people. I pray you put an insatiable hunger on the inside of every single person here that they would grow by the word, that they would know the word, that there would be a worker that can rightly divide the word. They would not yield to the to the God of this age. It would not yield to perversion. They would not yield to lust.

They would not let their zeal be for things of the flesh. But the zeal of the house of the Lord would consume them. So much so that we would see your kingdom come, your power put on display. Come on, shout to God. Come on, shout to God.

Stand upon your feet. Well, I hope you were encouraged by God's word. Thank you again for listening to Kings Alaska podcast. God bless you. For more great content go to kcalaska.com and may God's face shine upon you and give you peace.