Passion for Impact 5 (How To Generate Passion II) | Rev. COS Fawenu

Who is this? A Wisdom Bible church?

The Church of a distant Christian narration.

We thank God for His great grace that has brought us to this

dining table again. I pray that the Lord will

satisfy our anger. It will satisfy our tests in the

name of Jesus. Now, how to generate passion was

the last subtopic we studied and we're still going to continue in

the same light. However, it's important that we

refresh our mind or readdress our mind to the key issues that

were highlighted when we had the last session.

So in that last session, we listed discovery of purpose as

the first step to generate passion.

Discovery of purpose and I do the correlation between vision

and purpose that they could be used interchangeably.

When your purpose is tangible, then it becomes your vision.

Press the name of the book and then we pick on the patriarch

Father Jacob for a key study. We study the transition of Jacob

from a man who was responding to provocation to a man who

eventually pursued purpose in life.

We examine his transition from a man who was an apron around the

waist of his mother but who eventually discovered purpose

and by that he was able to gain the needed strength to stand on

his own feet when he was in the family house together with his

brother. You will discover that

everything about him and whatever he does, whenever his

own ideas, they were always the ideas suggested to him by the

mother. And because he has not attained

the maturity level to be able to separates the SAT from the

wheat, even the lung cancer of the murder, he followed it.

And so when he left home, he left without a personal road

map, he left without a personal map, he left home unprepared.

But thank God that along the line when he slept over in the

wilderness, he had an encounter, and that encounter change the

course of his destiny. I pray that as you listen to me

this morning, you will encounter God in a special way.

You will encounter God in a manner that will provoke the

pursuit of purpose, purpose that has eternal value, purpose that

bless destinies in the name of Jesus.

So we therefore navigated between Genesis chapter 27 and

Genesis 27 · chapter mention

Genesis chapter 29. From there, we study His

Genesis 29 · chapter mention

progress from where He left home by the instruction of his mother

in Genesis 27 to relocate to his uncle's place to escape the

anger of his brother that is jilted.

Then in chapter 28, we analyzed his encounter in the wilderness.

We are he caught the personal vision of angels descending and

ascending on a ladder. That is in chapter 28.

Then we come to chapter 29. We are after the encounter in

the wilderness. It demonstrated on common

passion. OK, In chapter 29 we found a

place where he met some shepherds when it was still ID.

No, with their cattle. No stay I do around the world

side waiting for men who will roll the stone before they could

water their animal. But when it got there, it

challenged them to their face that this is not the best of

time to rest. It is ideal.

The animals should be on the feet, still being fed.

So by reason of the vision he called OK, he can no longer

meddle with the company of Lizzie at art, Lizzie at an

fellow. So by himself a loom is

sequentially rolled the stone to assist a Rachel the water

animal. All of these were what we

employed to drive the teaching that when you have vision, when

you have purpose, that vision will help you to generate

passion. OK until he had that encounter.

He has to be pushed before you can do anything.

Press the name of the law now by reason of vision is now self

motivated to undertake destiny in the right direction.

I pray in the name of Jesus you will catch that right vision

that will make you to pursue destiny in the right direction

in the name of Jesus. Then in the course of that

study, we went on to identify 5 basic stimulants of purpose.

One information, 2 observation. Can you recollect?

Inspiration was the third one, then meditation, and then we

threw the cutting on irritation. Now observation, I mean

information. I mentioned that the natural

route to information is education and why the spiritual

route to it is revelation. Praise the name of the law.

Now to gain the information that can help you in destiny, the

natural part or routes you take is the part of education because

that lies in the natural realm. Why the spiritual route to it is

revelation then observation. I mentioned that observation

provide the cheapest access to education.

Observation provide the cheapest access to education because if

you practice observation responsibly, you will gain

wisdom. And I define wisdom as a form of

education. You don't pay school fees to

assess, especially if you know how to put your observation to a

good use. Inspiration it as the means by

which you get information that is not available in the natural

realm. To get information that is not

available in the natural realm, you engage inspiration and then

meditation is employed or used to process information.

Use it to process it inspiration and evil revelation into success

tools. That's why Moses admonished

Joshua. Don't let this book of the law

depart from you. Study it, then meditate on it,

and the end result when you follow that due process, OK, is

that you will have good success. OK, so it is by meditation that

you are able to process information, inspiration and

revelation into success too. Then irritation, I did mention

that when you employ irritation very well and positively, you

can turn your garbage to manure for brewing your cabbage.

Hope your mind is not well addressed to what we did in the

last session. Can we now proceed from there?

OK, so today by the grace of God, we will proceed to study

other steps or other experiences that was this a man to generate

passion. If we have spoken so much about

passion, how do you gain passion?

That's been the focus and the last study was dedicated to

discovery of purpose. When you discover purpose, you

are energized. It will create passion in you to

pursue your vision. So the number two thing is that

you must possess high taste for excellence.

You must possess a very high taste for excellence.

So that is next to purpose. Next to purpose, if you will

generate passion to pursue your destiny and make a good meaning

and make a positive impact in your one lifetime is to have

ideas for excellence. How do I mean by that?

I am talking about the ability to be total, the ability to be

thorough, the ability to handle assignment without leaving no

stone on tone. So ability to be thorough, the

ability to have your eyes on the best outcome in everything that

you do. That's excellence.

The ability in you, the driving you, the self motivation in you

to have your eyes on the best outcome.

When you talk about excellence you are talking about 0

Tolerance for failure. 0. Tolerance for failure in your

agenda. OK, if failure happen is an

accident, it's not part of what you program for.

It's not part of what your action or conduct deserves.

So conducting yourself in a way that you don't deserve failure,

that is excellence. Or if you are the lazy type, if

you are the carefree type, if you are the type that doesn't

give attention to details, if you are the type that is not

irritated by what is not good, what is not best, and then

certainly you have prepared for failure.

Am I talking to somebody? So excellence is about

dissatisfaction with average performance.

And that's what will make you thorough.

That's what will make you to have your eye on the best

outcome. Why?

Because you are dissatisfied with average performance.

OK. What you love to have is to

always be a top notch person in your career.

You want to be at the cutting edge.

Press the name of the law in your study.

You want to be at the cutting edge so you have 0 tolerance for

failure and then you are dissatisfied with average

performance. Your eye is always on the best

outcome and of course it is where you love the best that you

will mobilize your potential to push for the best outcome.

If you don't have the spirit of excellence, your potential will

life follow on tapped on use press the name of the law.

But where you have the spirit of excellence, OK, you will be

motivated to mobilize your potential to push for the best

outcome. So having a mindset of pursuing

excellence in life is very key to having passion to pursue

purpose #3 is selfless spirit of love for the well-being of

others. Is selfless spirit of love for

the well-being of others? If you are the type that is

concerned about only you, you may not be able to achieve much

in life. Hello, If you are a

self-centered person, OK, Passion will not be there for

you to be a blessing to others. And of course, when you check

the pyramid of sources, you know what a pyramid is.

Hello Church. You know what a pyramid is At

the base of a pyramid, OK, you can accommodate so many people,

but as you travel up the pyramid, the space is getting

narrower. So in the pyramid of success,

you will find those that want everything done for them at the

base. Hello.

So on the scale of success in the gradient of success, those

that want everything to be done for them by others will always

be at the base, then those that are doing their best for

themselves at the middle. So if you draw a triangle OK and

you divide it into 3 portion, you will discover that the base

is large. It can accommodate.

If you are putting a content into it into the space, it's

going to accommodate more than. As you grow up, you discover

that the second segment, OK, is smaller than the first segment

at the base. Then as you travel up the

gradient, it become very narrower.

That may be even difficult for just one person to stand at the

top. Praise the name of the Lord, OK.

It's very difficult for even just one person to stop at the

top and be articularly wrong. Now I am now saying that when

you relate that to how people are classified on the scale or

gradient of sources, the people you will find at the base will

be so many. And the characteristics that

they will have in common is that they are sets of people that

enjoy people doing things for them to enjoy, their parents

doing things for them to enjoy, their uncle doing things for

them to enjoy, their friends doing things for them to enjoy,

their government doing everything for them to enjoy.

They are never a contributing factor to collective progress.

So those are the people you find at the base.

Then when you get to the second segment in the pyramid, on the

pyramid you find those that are doing their best for them say

they will occupy the middle class.

My career, my family, my study, my children.

You know they will occupy the middle class.

They are doing their best, but the best they are doing is about

them. But if you are going to have

passion, OK. For collective good for

community, good for impact in your generation, you must move

beyond that level. And what will enable you to move

beyond that level is what I call the selfless spirit of love for

the well-being of others. So those that are searching

themselves for the good of others are those will find at

the top. Tell yourself my place is at the

top. I can't hear you say it louder.

So the people you will find at the top are those that are

searching themselves for the good of others.

And what is common with them is that they possess the selfless

spirit of love for the well-being of others.

And then the last that we agree to look at, which will also take

us to the Scripture, the key scripture for today is

patriotism, is closely related to the one I just discussed,

patriotism. Possessing the patriotic spirit

will help you to attain the senior most level of selfless

living. The senior most level of

selfless living. When you have the patriotic

spirit. What actually is patriotism?

In our contest, it is about extending your service beyond

your immediate family and other familial circle.

You know, I did mention that when you have this selfless

spirits, you want to do things for others, but it could still

be in a limited way if it does not enter the patriotic

dimension. By the time your selflessness

enter the patriotic dimension, you will be useful beyond your

family. In fact, you are going to be

useful beyond your local church. You are going to be useful even

beyond the circle of the body of Christ.

Am I talking to somebody? So patriotism is about extending

your service, extending your goodness, extending your

generosity, applying your potential for the good of others

beyond your immediate family and other familiar circles, such as

my friend, my colleague at work. No, patriotism goes beyond that.

Patriotism is about touching lives beyond bloodline and

clannish interests. Some of you can be very

wonderful attending to the extended family.

So people can be very wonderful when it comes to their

community, OK, the cultural setting of their hometown, the

cultural setting of their state of origin.

But when we're talking about patriotism, you are touching

lives beyond bloodline and clannies interests.

I put 2 examples to you the sectarian that we have in new

Chapter 7. It was celebrated by the elders

among the Jewish people for building a temple for the Jews

when himself was not a Jew. Hello, that and that's why I

described patriotism as an extension of selflessness that

goes beyond your immediate environment, beyond bloodline

and Clannis interests. The second example is the Good

Samaritan. He was on a journey.

He met a man that was attacked by bandits.

He was left for dead. He will have pleaded to death.

OK, in summary time then he met a Jew that was wounded by

bandits and he crossed the border of tribal segregation to

attend to the wounded person, whereas a priest at Halya met

him and did nothing. Somebody who is a priest also

possessed some level of passion for doing good, but his own kind

of good is limited to his religious circle.

So he's been good as not enter the patriotic dimension that is

beyond bloodline and clannish interests.

Then a Levites also came and every Levite is a potential

priest. Do you know that he also came by

past the man, maybe even pray God bless you.

Go India take over when it was when I was to do something.

Are you with me? But it's a maritime came and

picked him up paid for his medical medical bill.

In fact he gave them extra and he said even when you need more

write it OK. If it were in the mother time,

his own personal family medical is it card or they call it OK,

He said use it and credit it to me.

So that's Good Samaritan was not a religious leader, but it was

compassionate. It was what compassionate to me.

What loyalty is to a person or to a leadership figure is what

patriotism is to a system or to an institution, even to a

nation. You know, in other words, you

deploy loyalty for the service of an individual, but patriotism

is for the service of a system, of an institution, and it could

even be a nation. And so you're seeking the code

of the system. It's not about whether you like

the leader or you don't like the leader.

Am I talking to somebody? So when you give up on your

country and you don't play a game for your country and you

don't wish your country very well, the problem you have is

the problem of patriotism. It's not the problem of the bad

leaders. Am I talking to somebody?

Because loyalty is to a person. But patriotism, OK, transcend

the person. Patriotism is about love, it's

about interest, it's about sacrifice, it's about seeking

the well-being of a system, institution and even your

nation. And that's why I'm saying if

because you are bad leaders in your country is the reason you

give up on your country, the party, that's not the problem.

Your own problem is the problem of absence of the spirit of

patriotism. Because by reason of patriotism,

you will love the system, you will work for the good of an

institution including your nation, irrespective of which

party is ruling the country. Hello.

Do you know that there are people who wish any government

to fail once it is not their own party that formed the

government? AM I talking to somebody?

There's no way you can have a good country with a kind of

attitude. So what?

Loyalty is to a person, So you give loyalty to a person.

What you give to your country, what you give to your church,

what you give to your family as an institution is patriotism and

once it is there, you will seek the code of that system.

Luke Chapter 7. I read the first 5 verses as we

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wind down on this topic. Now when he had ended all he's

saying in the ordinance of the people, he entered into Capano,

and a certain ceturial servant who was there unto him was sick

and ready to die. Now in certain ceturium, his

servant was sick and ready to die and this man decided to

attend to him the way we attend to his own biological child.

That is selflessness at a level. Are we together?

He doesn't have the attitude that my people call Amario Baku.

So he went all out to seek for the best medical solution, which

was a spiritual one in that era that wherever this miracle walk

in, Jesus was, OK, I will carry my servant there because my

servant is very dear to me. He didn't say after all, I hire

him, I can always hire any other one.

And don't forget it was a sartorial, a military officer.

So you can easily discard any servant and have another one.

Are you with me? But I said, this one is so dear

to me, so selfless spirit. When you have it, there will be

passion to do good. The absence of passion to do

good is because you are selfish. If you are selfless, the passion

will be there to do good. And when the heart of Jesus, he

sent unto him the elders of the Jews decision that Jesus will

come and heal his servants. Then from verse 4 when I

discover another aspect of him that it was not only selfless

towards people, He was also patriotic to the nation and that

nation was not his own place of origin.

Being a sectarian means it was a Roman soldier living in

Jerusalem and he was seeking the good of Jerusalem.

Let's read what he did and why the headers of the Jews decided

to say or compel Jesus to favor him, and I tend to his request.

Verse 4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him

instantly, saying that it was worthy.

For whom is to do this? The elders of the Jews were not

advocating for him before Jesus. That this man the request is

putting before you is a request that must be attended to.

It was worthy that this should be done for him.

Oh yeah, nearly Tia Bashi, if now when you talk to people for

help, do they consider you worthy of the help?

Your past three, your past Condor the way you are related

with the people you are approaching all all that's

before. Does it make you deserving of

the kind of help you also need? You want no joker by time I told

you you're kind of lunar lower. Am I talking to somebody?

So it was not this man, OK, that was throwing himself around and

telling story that I am good. It was the elders of you that

said this man is what is good. Can people testify that you are

good? Now what made them to reach that

conclusion about him? Verse 5 for he loveth our nation

selflessness that transcend bloodline and clannies

interests. He loveth our nation.

I put the question to you, do you love your nation?

Do you love your nation and he build us a synagogue patriotism.

Then the second example, Luke chapter 10, 8 verses is what

Luke 10 · chapter mention

we're going to examine there from verse 30 through 37 and

Jesus answering saying his settlement went down from

Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him

of his women and wounded him and departed, leaving him half day.

And by chance when by chance you come across a man that needs

help, what do you do? And by chance, because people

who will make a demand or you for help, OK, will not

ordinarily fall into your plan. Hello.

They will not ordinarily fall into your budget.

People who seek help, OK, They come in as disruption to your

budget. So I'm a principal person.

No, I can't alter my budget. Then you are not a good person.

I know that there are people who by their carelessness, OK, they

want you to be responsible for their carelessness.

I'm not talking about those people.

But generally speaking, OK, the rendering app is always about

all. You have to alter your own

personal plan. You have to sacrifice your own

comforts. Am I talking to somebody?

So it was by chance, not the way they plan it.

So the priest had a schedule meeting, OK, And already waiting

for him and he must not miss it. Maybe it was even a council

meeting. Maybe it was to even perform a

religious ceremony. But by chance there came down a

certain priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on

the other side. He passed by on the other side.

And likewise in Levites, when he was at a place, came and looked

on him and also passed by on the other side.

But he's setting Samaritan, He's setting Samaritan.

Don't let it be safe that unbelievers are better than you

are doing good. Don't let it be said in your

community. Don't let it be said in your

neighborhood that your own believers, OK, that you share

your neighborhood with, OK, have a record of being better than

you are doing good. Because that is the scenario

here. The priest use a contemporary

church language. The pastor maybe the general of

a share. He has the capacity and control

of resources to render and he deny the head.

Then the Levites, the Dickens and the child they follow after

the lifestyle of the general of a share also deny people head.

Then he stuck unbeliever that could consider on save he had

compassion. A Samaritan is setting one as a

journey came where the world and when he saw him he had

compassion on him. I will close this discussion by

giving you a special definition for compassion as it's related

to passion. They started for and he went to

him. The other one passed by the

other side. In fact they were on the side

before, but the moment they spotted him, they defeated but

this one went to him. You know that somebody has a

need. I say I didn't do it because he

didn't ask. So don't let it be that it is

only the help that were asked for that you give.

Also respond to the help that you discover.

I can never forget what I should go there Amola in my life, my

years in the university, one particular time I had nothing

again on me. Nothing again on me for going

for like 24 hours without fasting.

OK, all I had with me, I think it was 1 error.

You know, our course is now so bastardized that you may not be

able to fix it properly now. OK.

But that amount I had on me was sufficient to buy just a wrap of

sweets. OK.

And I went, I bought that wrap of sweets and I leak it so that

at least there'll be some glucose semi system.

Then by the time the day will break, after I finished praying,

I had a knock on my door. And I hope yes, Gary and some

other thing. And I said, Prashek, what's the

situation? He said he went to Zion.

It's like every academic environment has a Zion.

He said he went to Zion to pray and as he started praying the

Holy Ghost said to him this is not the time to be praying.

OK, my son OK, but I would like to come to the university.

OK needed help and he went back to his room and took from all

sorts of stuff from his own food store and brought to me and he

met my It was not a help that I went to ask for for the Holy

Spirit minister to him. Go ahead.

And he went to him and bound up his wound, pouring in oil and

wine and set him on his own beast.

Now the oil and the wine, when he set out OK, he didn't meant

to use it to attend to a wounded person.

Maybe it's for a complete different, different purpose.

And set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and

took care of him, and on the model when he departed.

So when he brought him to an end, he discontinued his own

journey to stay with him. He took out two pens and gave

them to the horse, and said unto him, Take care of him.

And whatsoever does spend, there's more.

When I come again I will repeat the week.

Now of these three thinkers. That was neighbor unto him that

fell among the thieves. And he said, he does sweat mercy

on him. Then he said, then set Jesus

unto him, go and do thou likewise.

And so let's wrap it up this way.

What motivated this man to do what he did was the spirit of

compassion. And perhaps you don't know

compassion means compound or community passion.

Compound or words. Community passion.

The one that is motivated or generated by patriotism, where

you seek the good of others beyond bloodline, religious or

clannish interests. It is the form of passion that

is deployed for the generality of the people, starting with

your neighbors, that needs your head and not just for the

pursuit of personal ambition. And so this is the conclusion of

the matter on passion for impact.

It should not just be about passion to pursue only your

personal ambition. Factor in compassion which I

describe as compound or community passion that will make

you seek the good of others. God bless you and grant you

grace to put this message to a good use for the good of people

and to the glory of Gods of God in Jesus name.

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