Faith Capsule:<\/b> Maintaining zeal for God is to keep hot love for God.<\/p>\n
Numbers 25, John 2:13-22<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The level of a believer\u2019s zeal is the driving force in how a believer seeks God. Invariably, how much you seek God will determine how much you can see in Him. Seeking God casually will not deliver same result compared to seeking Him zealously. Zealousness for God is a proof of man\u2019s love God. Zealousness for God draws man to God. James 4:8<\/i><\/b> buttressed, \u201cCome near to God and he will come near to you.\u201d<\/i><\/b> Zeal that is rooted in understanding and knowledge of God shall be fired up by revelation while producing result that is not of this world. Maintaining zeal for God is to keep hot love for God. The word of God that is fire is the source of maintaining hot love. (Jeremiah 23:29) Love that is not hot will grow cold because of the wickedness of the world. With cold love zealousness becomes punctured. Prayer for today: <\/i><\/b>Ask for the zeal of God to eat you up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faith Capsule: Maintaining zeal for God is to keep hot love for God. Numbers 25, John 2:13-22 The level of a believer\u2019s zeal is the driving force in how a believer seeks God. Invariably, how much you seek God will determine how much you can see in Him. Seeking God casually will not deliver same … Continue reading DO NOT GROW COLD<\/span>
\nIn Jesus, we see what it means to be zealous for the course of the kingdom\u2019s business. The bible recorded, \u201cNow the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. \u00a0<\/sup>And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers\u2019 money and overturned the tables. \u00a0<\/sup>And He said to those who sold doves, \u201cTake these things away! Do not make My Father\u2019s house a house of merchandise!\u201d \u00a0<\/sup>Then His disciples remembered that it was written, \u201cZeal for Your house has eaten Me up.\u201d (John 2:13-17) <\/i><\/b>The action of Jesus is a demonstration of Zeal for God. In Jesus\u2019s action we see a principle of fighting a good course for God\u2019s glory. Phinehas the son of Eleazar demonstrated zeal for God.
\nWhile on the journey to the Promised Land, the children of Israel provoked the anger of the Lord by joining to Baal of Peor while they were facing the wrath for their sin, \u201c\u2026Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.\u201d (Numbers 25:7-8<\/i><\/b>) \u00a0The zealousness in Phinehas made him to see wrong act against God; it caused him to rise up and not be a part of the congregation that silently accommodated wickedness. His action provoked God\u2019s blessing upon his life.<\/p>\n