Psalm 23:3
He (the LORD)restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Luke 24:32
32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Soul Destroyers
EMOTIONAL PASSION KILLERS
AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
AN UNBALANCED LIFE
Psalm 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 (GN)
“I’ve learned why people work so hard to succeed: it is because they envy the things their neighbors have.”
Too Little Margin
Thefoolfoldethhishandstogetherandeatethhisownfleshbetterisanhandfulwith quietnessthanboththehandsfullwithtravailandvexationofspirit.
Too Much Margin
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness,
than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 4:5-6
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
RELATIONAL PASSION KILLERS
AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT
Job 5:2 (NLT)
“Resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.”
Ephesians 4:31a-32
31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger,… 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
AN UNSUPPORTED LIFE
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV)
“Two are better than one, because… if one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!”
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
SPIRITUAL PASSION KILLERS
AN UNEXAMINED LIFE
1 Corinthians 11:31 (NLT)
“If we examine ourselves, we will not be examined by God and judged in this way.”
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
AN UNDERNOURISHED SOUL
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Romans 10:17
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
AN UNAPPLIED TRUTH
James 1:23-25 NLT
23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it–he will be blessed in what he does.
Psalm 96:2 NIV
Sing to the LORD , praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.
1 Peter 2:9 (Mes)
“… you are God’s instruments to do His work and speak out for Him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference He made for you!”