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How to Keep Your Passion for Souls Burning

1.  Remind yourself that the time is short.  Be last days oriented.  What do basketball players do when they are ahead by thirty points with one minute to go in the game? They start rejoicing, celebrating, hugging, and leaping for joy.  Even though the final buzzer hadn’t gone off, they know they have already won.  That is the way we should act.  Even though the trumpet hasn’t sounded yet, we need to act like it will any second now  because we have already won.  Jesus defeated sin and the devil on the cross and gave us power in His resurrection.  We need to rejoice, that although Jesus is not back yet, there is less than a minute to go on God’s timetable. Our lives are short—soon it will be over.  I am looking forward to being with Jesus and taking as many people with me as possible.

2.  Never tire of soul winning.  To be an effective witness for Jesus Christ, you have to be faithful.  Faithfulness is the key to successful Christian living.  Never get tired of serving the Lord, because the Holy Spirit doesn’t get tired.  Life never gets dull or boring or tedious if we live by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I don’t care what kind of training you’ve had in the past, you can’t let yourself get lax today.  You may have been the best soul winner in town three years ago, but what you did yesterday has nothing to do with today.  Today is a brand new day, and God is looking for you to win souls for Him today!

You may be thinking, “I don’t feel much like witnessing to the uttermost part of the earth.”  You need to put action first and feelings second and keep your spirit in good condition.  Unless you keep your spirit in the right kind of condition—full of strength, full of love, and full of power—you will never do anything of value for the Lord. Just like you have made decision in your life such as, “I go to church every Sunday,” or “I am a tither,” in the same way you have to make a quality decision from which there is no turning back, “I am a soul winner.”

3.  Evaluate your priorities. When you lose your vision of winning lost souls for God, then you are no longer thinking like the Holy Spirit—you’re thinking like yourself.  You have left what God has given you to do and have started doing your own thing.

4.  If you feel yourself slipping, ask God for help.  Be truthful with Him and ask Him to help you.  Tell Him, He already knows. 

5.  Set soul winning goals.  Setting soul winning goals brings focus to the Great Commission and reminds all of us individuals that there is an overwhelming primary purpose given by Jesus for the church to unite. In other words, there is a single cause (the salvation of mankind), which is bigger than all our individual needs and desires.So, whether it’s with a chart, a thermometer, or other visual aids, or simply a continual vocal expression, set goals and contend for the faith. Simply put, setting evangelism goals will bring your church into one accord aimed towards our Great Commission of winning souls.

6.  Meditate on the destiny of the ungodly. Someone asked the great evangelist D.L. Moody how he would train young evangelists.  He said, “I would simply dangle them over hell for a few minutes.”What will we do when it's time for souls to be condemned to hell? What will it be like to stand there and watch as people are thrown into the lake of fire forever? Will we think, Did I know any of them?  Could I have done anything that would have kept them from going there? We either don't believe the horror that "whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:15) or we don't care. Both are sin.

7.  Keep your shield high and watch.  If you are going to do anything for the Kingdom of God, be ready for unexpected abuse. This may come through a Christian brother or sister - the place least expected. Satan has no mercy. He will stomp on you when you are down, and dig his grimy heel into the back of your neck. Don't listen to his lies! Satan hates you and has a rotten plan for your life. Your downfall is his delight. When I was a new Christian I had such zeal for winning the lost.  I shared this zeal with a supposedly mature Christian and she told me, “Zealousness without wisdom is foolishness.”  It put out my fire for a long time, because I thought that she knew better than I.  Remember, passion draws some people and repels others. 

8.  Don’t let soul winning become familiar.  People lack passion because they have allowed something precious to become familiar—like when a child asks for a Christmas toy and within two weeks he loses his passion.  The strategy of Satan is to take that which is most precious in your life and make it that which is common. 

9.  Surround yourself with other soul winners.  Link yourself up with people that have a fire for evangelism.  It will keep you stirred up.  The opposite of 1 Cor. 15:33 is true.