“The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. …..But Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him? We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:13, 19-20
Passion is your ability to pursue what gives you satisfaction at all cost. Mission is what you have set out to achieve. The mission Jesus came to undertake is bringing humanity back to the kingdom they have left.
Jesus with passion preached the kingdom gospel. “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people” Matthew 9:35.
No sickness and disease is in his kingdom. So after the people heard the kingdom gospel he healed them.
Jesus didn’t only preached the gospel of the kingdom passionately. He also died for the mission for which he came. “For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” 1Peter 3:18.
The Sanhedrin couldn’t resist Peter. Peter was ready to die for his mission. He told the Sanhedrin: “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” Acts 4:20.
Nothing stops a person with passion from achieving his mission. Passion puts the readiness to die in achievers such that nothing stops them.
Let’s look at Paul’s passion. “Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus” Acts 21:13.
For you to undertake your mission, you need passion. That’s, the readiness to die for your pursuit. God honours the passion with which you pursue your mission. Inject passion into your desire to achieve your mission to win divine approval.
LET’S PRAY
O’ Lord, give me grace enough to know that, passion for souls is mission for saints in the glorious name of Jesus Christ. Amen Amen Amen. Fountain to your life.
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