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Restoring Your Passion for God
I read an article today that really spoke to me. After reading this, I feel I’ve been backsliding and need to return to my First Love and do the things I did at first. I’m going to share a small part with you -- my Christian brothers and sisters, hoping it will help you as well. It’s only a page and well worth reading!

taken from:
RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR GOD
by Michael L. Brown

I will never forget the words spoken one night by the pastor of the church in which I was saved. He said “A person may take 20 years to backslide.” You grow old gradually. You can backslide just as gradually.

“If I can seem to be on fire for God, keeping busy for the Lord and staying true to His Word, and yet be backsliding at the same time, how can I really know the state of my heart?”

A SELF-EXAMINATION:

* Perhaps your desire for intimate times with the Lord has waned, especially for prayer and worship, and your once-ravenous hunger for the Word is now lacking. You may enjoy worship -- but what about the object of worship -- the Lord Himself.

* Do you feel the need for things other than God to gain fulfillment? Are you increasingly seeking social orientation in place of private devotions? Do you desire recognition and acceptance by persons of flesh and blood?

* Do you have a decreased burden for the lost and revival, and replaced with good works and good spiritual programs. Witnessing used to come naturally, but now you almost avoid the subject.

* Have you permitted things into your life that would have been unthinkable when you were on fire. The fact that something doesn’t “bother” you may be the loudest warning you will ever hear. You are not experiencing freedom that comes with trust, you are experiencing insensitivity that comes with hardness.

*Am I experiencing a lack of victory over the flesh, falling back into old habits and lusts.

CHOOSING TO RESTORE FIRST LOVE

Revelation 2:5 “Repent.... and do the things you did at first.” We must renew our relationship with Jesus!

How? We SATURATE our minds and hearts with His Word, MEDITATING on His truths. Think back to those early days, and seek to recapture that sense of divine nearness and whenever prompted, share our faith.

We do not do these things as spiritual performance, or religious habit, or to merit favor, but because we love Him and long for Him and want to deepen our fellowship with Him. His Spirit will flood our hearts, and before we know it, He will once again become the most precious One in our lives.

The Lord will receive you again, no questions asked. He has promised to draw near to those who draw near to Him (James 4:8)

Now is the time to pursue God with all our hearts!