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Hi my friends, welcome to day 22, find your passion.

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Psalms 37 verse 4 says,

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Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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You know, finding and pursuing our passion is vital to living a fulfilled life.

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God places those unique desires in our heart that reflect our purpose and calling.

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And when we engage in activities that ignite our passion,

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we align ourselves with God's design for our life.

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But we have to seek him.

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You know, he is the source of these desires.

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He is the one who created us with unique passion and purpose.

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And so make sure we are taking time to seek God, to build relationship with him.

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And out of that oneness comes our dreams and desires and passion.

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And why did he wire us this way?

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Well, I love in Proverbs 13, 12, it talks about

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hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

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And Jesus is the perfect example of a tree of life.

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You think about this tree that just has fruit and deep roots,

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and it's thriving in every season, right?

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In Psalms 1, it never, its leaf never withers.

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It always is bearing fruit and prospering.

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And God created us to bear fruit.

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He created us to be a blessing to those around us,

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to our gifts and desires and passions,

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to be a source of life, of abundant life to this world.

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And, you know, in the passion translation, Proverbs 13, 12 says,

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when hope's dream seems to drag on and on, the delay can be depressing.

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But when at last your dream comes true, life's sweetness will satisfy your soul.

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He created us with a need to dream.

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He created us with a need to pursue our dreams, our passions,

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our desires, and it comes from relationship with him.

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So if you're feeling hope deferred or just like your soul is missing something,

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take time to dream with God.

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Take time to awaken those passions that might be laying dormant within you.

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Our activation for today says, what activities make you feel most alive and fulfilled?

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You know, for me, I love to, you know, hear God and get ideas

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and then share them with my friends, with you.

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I love this.

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I love to create content and I love to, you know,

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cook for my friends or paint things as gifts.

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Like I just love to just be in creativity and share it with the world around me.

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Activation number two says, identify one passion project

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that you can start today and dedicate more time to it this week.

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You know, we need to be intentional to take time to safeguard creativity,

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to safeguard time for our dreams.

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And I don't know about you, but when life is busy and we're working

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or we have kids and family and chores and just life,

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some of the things that can just be put on the back burner

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are those things that give us the most life, like our dreams and desires.

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So safeguard that, prioritize them today.

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So let me pray for you.

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Oh, dear God, thank you for the dreams and desires

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and passions you've placed within our hearts.

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Help us to recognize these desires as gifts from you

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to take intentional time to seek you and delight ourself in you

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because you are the source of all of these dreams and desires.

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God, I pray blessings upon my friends today,

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that any hope deferred will be broken.

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In the name of Jesus, that their hope would be restored and renewed.

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And God, that these desires and passions and dreams

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would be rekindled in the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Okay, my friend, I hope you have a great day

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and I'll see you again tomorrow.