So often, we are drawn to the idea of a faith that costs us little—a “six-pack in six weeks” version of Christianity that promises heaven with minimal inconvenience. But the call of Jesus is not to fit Him around our lives, but to let His life transform us from the inside out. It’s easy to hedge our bets, say a quick prayer, and then carry on with our priorities—paying bills, raising kids, pursuing comfort, and blending in with the crowd. Yet, this is not the life God intends for us. When we are born again, God’s own Spirit comes to dwell within us, igniting a fire that cannot be contained by convenience or comfort.
The story of my own journey—being radically saved, wrestling with the disconnect between passionate faith and lukewarm Christianity, and receiving a prophetic word to never let anemic faith pull me down—reminds me that God’s life in us is meant to be vibrant and powerful. We are not called to be respectable, comfortable, or merely “good” Christians. We are called to be wholehearted, like Caleb, who at 85 was still hungry for God’s promises and ready to take on giants because he trusted in God’s power, not his own strength.
Normal Christianity is not about blending in or seeking the approval of others. It is about being set apart, living as temples of the Holy Spirit, and honoring God with our whole lives. The world does not need more anemic, half-hearted believers; it needs people who are ablaze with the love and power of God, willing to lay down everything for Him. This is the heartbeat of our church—not to be a comfortable option, but to be a place of revival, where the lost and the passionately surrendered are welcome, and where the fire of God is fanned into flame.
If you sense your spirit has grown cold, now is the time to open your heart and ask God to rekindle that fire. God is eager to pour out His Spirit on all who hunger for Him. Let’s repent of comfort-based Christianity and ask for a fresh visitation of the Holy Spirit, so that our lives would burn with love for Jesus and display the reality of His kingdom to the world.
1. Romans 10:9-10 (ESV) — > “Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
2. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV) — > “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
3. Joshua 14:10-12 (ESV) — > “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. My strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”
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