Enthusiasm in the Lord Part Two

1 Timothy 6:12 "Fight the good fight of the faith."

The fuel that was placed inside of us is the blood of the lamb. It was paid at a high price. The devil came to rob us of the joy.

Once he steals your joy, you will lose enthusiasm, lose your joy, lose your confidence and you will lose the power of faith.

The Lord wants to restore you one notch more; higher.

We are our own enemy; our mind is our obstacle to what God is calling us to. "Put on the mind of Christ"

Dun get tired of running the race, and of fighting the good fight. We are fighting the fight that cannot be lost. Its a fixed match. There's no way we can lose.

Unless, you willingly lose, unless you got bribed to lose.

CHANGE. We need to change our mindset.

In Habakkuk 3:17-18, He is experiencing failure, lack, no fruits, no blessing, he thought of quitting. YET i will rejoice, no matter how far away, no matter what I am experiencing. When you purpose yourself to be enthusiastic, to God's purposes.

Habakkuk chapter 3

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.


Nehemiah 8:10 "The joy of the Lord is my strength"

We all have problems, who does not have problems.

All the problems in the world is more or less similar; money, relationship, family.

It takes conscious effort to rejoice in the Lord. Many times we don't feel like worshiping the Lord.

Many of us are overwhelmed by many things.

PURPOSE in LIFE: God wants to deal with disappointments today.

We get disappointed even with God, we do not understand how God moves. God wants to release that emotional part of our lives.

Disappointment in life. The key this morning: YET!

When we are in love, love makes you do crazy things. Fall in love with God.

A lot of us do not want to be noticed, how can we make disciples then?

Habakkuk 3

19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.


The result of your enthusiasm is that God becomes your strength.

We are always giving excuses for ourselves. Find out what is the root of your excuse? Then remember that these are excuses.

BE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT YOUR LIFE.

God does not want us to remain where we are.

Nehemiah 8: 3 He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

They read the word for half a day and they do it for seven days. In life, modern day, we all have our own preconceptions, principles in life. If you want to prosper in God. Let us go back to the basics; the word of God. The principles of God will never fail in your life.

We need to understand the word of the Lord. Being Enthusiastic is good, but we need to have the knowledge too. Enthusiasm without knowledge resulted in a mishap e.g. When David brought in the ark of the tabernacle.

We need to have focused enthusiasm.

In our lives we need to apply the word of God but how can we apply it if we do not know the word?

Nehemiah 8:8 They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear [a] and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read.


10 Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

Change can be revolutionary (completely new) or evolutionary (slowly changing). A lot of our lives needs to be slowly changed.

1) To get enthusiasm, we must first understand the value of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is something we all need. A lot of us are waiting; for someone to come and excite you, to push is, for life to change. But all we do is wait.

"Farmer was resting, he was a lazy farmer, suddenly a rabbit ran across hit a stone and had a heart attack and died. He thought to himself, wow if everyday a rabbit comes and has an accident, he will have food everyday!" It never happens.

If you are sitting down and waiting for love, you will not be able to find it. You need to look for love.

Do not sit down and wait for God to do something, we must give, we must sow and then we will reap.

2) Take responsibility for your own enthusiasm. - Be excited about your own life.

Disneyland mentality: "When we go to Disneyland, and we become happy but on the way to Disneyland, we fight? Quarrel? and only when we reach there do we be happy?" Its not about the destination, its about the journey. It is our journey there that matters.

3) Excited people make other people excited. They add value to your life. If you are with boring people, you want to go home. It is contagious.

People tends to connect visual. When they do not see the enthusiasm in your face, they do not feel it.

"If you have it flaunt it, if you don't have it fake it? - Faith it!"

I must put my faith in the Lord, "act" courageous and then slowly gain the faith!

"make a joyful noise unto the Lord"

It is the Grace of God that matters.

SMILE!!!!

1) Fake it till you make it? - Eat a banana : )
Fake joy is better than genuine depression.

2)Forsake it(negative feelings) till you make it. - Dun let your emotions control you.

3) Break it (bad habits)till you make it. Procrastination - Tomorrow never comes. Forgetfulness. (give away the book of excuses)

4) Stake it till you make it. Claim it, declare it. Be enthusiastic about it, study about it to know how to make it work. iTs never easy.

5) Take it till you make it. Endurance.

Lets run the race. Fight the good fight.

"youth olympics" - you got to keep training. do the due diligence. Do not be only the claiming christians. Be the declaring and then the working christians.

ENTHUSIASM with WISDOM