ENTHUSIASM!

Your life will be about as exciting as you are, and you can always find something to be thrilled about, so how about some ENTHUSIASM! Webster’s gives the root for the word enthusiasm as:

(Gr. enthousiasmos < enthousiazein, to be inspired, be possessed by a god, inspire < enthous, entheos, possessed by a god < en-, in + theos, god: see THEO-)

And the definition of enthusiasm as:

1 [Historical] supernatural inspiration or possession; inspired prophetic or poetic ecstasy
2 [Obs.] religious fanaticism
3 intense or eager interest; zeal; fervor
4 something arousing such interest or zeal
—SYN PASSION

HA, HA! It’s possible to GET POSSESSED on purpose. So who or what possesses you? Is it some little “god,” like fear or dismay, or the One and only Almighty - to whom you pray?

The enemy wants to be like a god and possess, but he’s supernaturally uninspiring and the dictator of discouragement. He likes to possess with stress and oppress. He’ll take whatever you will give him dement it. But you were not meant for dement, the only True God has another intent.

God’s intent is ascent. He wants to possess you and take you where you’ve never went. To raise you up far above all the thoughts of the Devil, to His way of thinking - a much higher level. To divinely inspire and fill you with fire – Almighty abiding within, so you never tire.

Isa 40:28-31
28 Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
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1 Cor 3:16-17
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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1 John 4:4-5
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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Rom 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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Eph 6:10
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
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Phil 4:13
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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Eph 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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