AZ Youth Workers Conference Session 1 of 3

Speaker: Doug Reed

Lack Of Passions

Colossians 2:3

We become great at methodology but lack the passion that goes beyond theology.
Their has to be a soulfulness to communication.

Sometimes we struggle with passion because we don't like the position God has put us in.

IQ - our intelligence quotience.
EQ - our emotional quotience.

God Is About Making Us Passionate About Him.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 - (rephrased my me) God chose the nobodies to point out the shallowness of the somebody's.

5 Principles of those who are passionate:

1. Principle of Solitude

• Satan fights your personal time because he is so afraid of the value it brings.
• Passion grows in the dark, it has to settle into your heart
• Dr. Cho, said, "I have more to do, I guess I better spend another hour with my creator to get it all done."
• Ezekiel spent three years before God used him to kill the Baal prophets.
• Principals of greatness begin with principles of solitude.

2. Principle of Self Encouragement

• Passion will die if it is not encouraged by yourself.
• enCourage is when courage is put in, disCourage is when courage is stolen.
• "Shut up and drive, we have all been shot" - Black Hawk Down

3. Principle of Sacrifice

• Personal cost will build passion

4. Principle of Simplicity

• Passion is like an arrow, it must have a target.
• If you live without a vision you make life more difficult to live.
  

5. Principle of Spiritual Experience

• Jesus is the vine and we are the branches and apart from him we can do nothing.

Great One Liners:
The problem with the lack of passion is not what happened, it is what didn't happen.

You get tired when you live below your destiny.

All jobs have their own set of challenges.