Zeal

why cant we operate with zeal for God? Because of double-mindedness. Half of the time we spend trying to appeal to the flesh and the other half of the time is spent trying to walk according to the Spirit. Two cannot walk together unless they agree and we wonder why we are stagnant.
We desire power and pleasure, effectiveness and relaxation, but they are contradictory. we desire impact without opposition but this is not the natural order of things. There must be a commitment to doing what is right simply because it is right and not because it is easy because most of the time "right" is hard.
Zeal is a response to obedience that wells up inside and overflows from the believer and this is the victory that breaks free from spiritual heaviness into the triumphant life of being more than a conqueror.
Opposition is coming today, do not let times of peace fool you. Do not waste time sleeping your day away or wondering what might be but hear the Lord say, "find me while I may yet be found and I will be with you and bring victory to every battle you enter by my Spirit. Victory came when I put on flesh not in the absence of opposition."