Rekindling the Flame // Rekindling the Flame, Part 3

<p>It’s one thing to have a God-given gift or ability – we all do. It’s another thing entirely to use that gift for His glory when we’re facing stiff opposition in life. When everybody and everything seems to be against us. Right there in that place is where we want to give up.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Rediscovering the Gift</strong></span></h3> <p>Over the past couple of weeks we've been chatting about <em>"Rekindling the Flame"</em>; the passion in our hearts for being about the business that God has left us here on earth for – His business, God’s business. Many, many Christians love Jesus, they want to follow Him but they've lost their way. Not so much because they don't love the Lord but because the way they spend their life and their resources and their time isn't what God had intended.</p> <p>What we believe and what we do are meant to be linked. That's why faith without works is dead. What does that mean? It means that if we believe something with all our hearts and yet we fail to live it out with our lives eventually what we believe will start to die. And that's what’s happening for many people who set out on this journey of loving God and following Jesus. Their faith has started to die because they've lost focus on what they're meant to be doing.</p> <p>Interesting how that strikes home. Interesting how we sometimes focus on our faith and forget about living it out. And then we wonder why our faith is dwindling, why we feel like a rudderless ship on an ocean being tossed this way and that way. Now can I say that's something that many people go through so this week we're continuing on our journey of <em>"Rekindling the Flame"</em> by opening up the second letter that the wise old Apostle Paul wrote back in the first century to his young protégé Timothy.</p> <p>It seems that young Tim was having the same problem. Timothy was pastoring a Church and as anyone who's ever tried to do that will tell you, that quite simply is not an easy job. And there are two verses in particular t