inside. Maybe even right now—even while reading a book
that’s inviting you back where you once walked, back to
fervent, believing prayer—you honestly just don’t see the
point in going there again.
So here’s what I’d say to you. Let’s start here. Praying for
this. To recover and maintain your passion. To regain and
sustain your cutting edge.
In order to do it, I want to take you back to a real-life story
that God placed in Scripture (2 Kings 6:1–7) for just such a
moment as this. And I want to use it and the principles it
teaches to encourage your heart and then help you begin
stirring up a strategy to get your passion back. Because if
you’re not at a low-passion point right now, the time will likely
come when you’ll feel yourself being tugged there. And when
that season comes, make a note to put this story on your must-
read list.
As it happened, the prophet Elisha was standing near one
of his protégés, who was chopping down a tree at the banks of
the Jordan River, laboring to gather the raw materials needed
for building a larger meeting place. But at one point in either an
upswing or a downswing, the iron head of that man’s ax