Keys to a Passionate Faith: Beware the Snare

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Keys to a Passionate FaithBeware the Snare

• Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual
  fervor, serving the Lord.
• Romans 1211

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Keys to a Passionate Faith

• Key 1 Holy Habits
• Key 2 Focus
• Key 3 Practice the Holy Habit of joy or
  celebration.
• Key 4 Risk
• Key 5 Avoid the worlds snare.

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• Jabberwocky
• 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
• Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
• All mimsy were the borogoves,
• And the mome raths outgrabe.
• "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
• The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
• Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
• The frumious Bandersnatch!"
• He took his vorpal sword in hand
• Long time the manxome foe he sought
• So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
• And stood awhile in thought.

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• And as in uffish thought he stood,
• The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
• Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
• And burbled as it came!
• One, two! One, two! and through and through
• The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
• He left it dead, and with its head
• He went galumphing back.
• "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
• Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
• O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
• He chortled in his joy.
• 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
• Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
• All mimsy were the borogoves,
• And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Key 5 Avoid the worlds snare.

• Love of the world douses passionate faith.

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• For where your treasure is, there your heart
  will be also.
• Matthew 621

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• "No one can serve two masters. Either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or he will be
  devoted to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve both God and Money.
• Matthew 624

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We get snared in the areas of

• pleasure,
• possessions,
• and identity.

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Escape the worlds snare by

• the power of Gods Spirit.
• confession.
• giving stuff away and practicing contentment.
• asking God what He thinks.

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• What good is it for a man to gain the whole
  world, yet forfeit his soul?
• Mark 836