The Gift that Lies within You // Rekindling the Flame, Part 1

<p>God has a plan for our lives–he made us in a certain way, He gave us the gifts to do certain things, and He has already prepared those things for us to do. Problem is, amidst the day to day grind of life ... it’s so easy to lose sight of all that. And when we lose sight of it ... we inevitably lose our way</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>A Different Perspective</strong></span></h3> <p>It’s such a blessing for me to be able to join you again today at the beginning of a new series and I have called this series, “<em>Rekindling the Flame</em>.” Because, I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get tired. I mean, I love doing what I do – I absolutely love it; wouldn’t be caught dead doing anything else rather than what I am doing right now. But even when we love doing what we are doing; even when we are serving God with all out heart, sometimes we get tired; sometimes we get rundown; sometimes so many things around us seem to be going wrong, that – well, we can lose our drive, or our determination or our direction or our sense of purpose in life. Have you ever found that?</p> <p>Just this morning I was sitting praying, feeling as though I was getting close to running on empty and asking the Lord to fill me afresh, which He did. But this reality of being drained by life, by service, by all the things that we go through, is the reality that pops up again and again for most of us. Have you noticed that? So that’s why we are going to spend the next few weeks together in God’s Word, letting Him speak to us; letting Him into the deepest and darkest places in our hearts, to rekindle the flame.</p> <p>And there is no better place to be doing that than the Apostle Paul’s second letter to his young protégé, Timothy. So let’s have a look at how Paul opens up his letter to young Tim. Tim has served with Paul all over the place – in Ephesus as a courier. They wrote a few letters in the New Testament together. So Paul was obviously Timothy’s mentor and as any mentor has for his protégé, Paul had a special