Pastor John,
I loved what you said today about zeal and about knowledge from God. This is what I heard from you: Zeal can take you anywhere, good or bad, and zeal can be used anywhere, rightly or wrongly; pray for knowledge from God.
This changed my whole heart on zeal. I have held zeal very high on my list for a while now. I pray often for Jesus to please not to take my zeal away. I have been attributing zeal with life. But the Spirit is life. It felt so good today when you taught about this. Zeal can be used anywhere! Zeal is used everywhere.
And there is no difference between the Muslims, the Christians, the Jews, the Athiest – without the holy Ghost, they are all in the same condition. They are all serving the same dead god. I know you have said this, but today it just seems so much clearer. The five pillars of Islam are just like Christianity or Jewish rituals.
I know Jesus can use zeal, too, and I want to have everything Jesus wants me to have. I want to have the exact amount Jesus wants me to have. But, boy, this sure changed how I looked at things. I had zeal on the top of my list!
Beth D.