Summer Recharge: Reignite Your Fire

 

SUMMER RECHARGE! Sermon Notes Pastor Brad Myers

Reignite Your Fire June 22, 2025

Today: Reignite Your Fire!

Recharge: refreshed, renewed, or revived….

Q) What good is being spiritually recharged if you do nothing about it?

Core Biblical Concept

A Spiritual renewal demands a spiritual response.

Being refreshed, renewed, or revived is never for personal experience alone; it’s for transformation, obedience, and mission.

James 1:22 (NIV)

Spiritual recharging is incomplete without action.

Our inward change is also for an outward purpose!

Recharging without a response is like recharging your phone and never using it again! Empowered; but useless.

Acts 20:24: Paul speaks to elders of Ephesian church in Miletus (a port city near Ephesus) (Turkey)

• Paul’s farewell address before heading to Jerusalem.
• Imprisonment and suffering await him. He’s committed!
• Compares Mission or Self-Preservation (life)!

Acts 20:24 (NLT)

Key Themes in the Verse

“But my life is worth nothing to me”

• Greek: Logos: worth, or value
• Paul: “I place no personal value on my life.”

The Apostle Paul proclaims you must dethrone self-preservation, before you walk in Spirit-mission.

Reflects Matthew 16:25

Matthew 16:25 (NIV)

“finishing the work”

• Greek: teleiōsō ton dromon: Completing one’s divinely appointed path.
• Paul life not random journey but a divinely ordained race
• Same 2 Timothy 4:7 – “I have finished the race…”
• “The Work” Implies: 3 things: Purpose, Pace, Pressure

The Apostle Paul’s focus wasn’t survival — it was completion.

“the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus” Divine Assignment!

• Paul recognized he didn’t invent his purpose — it was received.
• We aren’t recharged or reignited for us…. But for our mission!

“telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.”

• Not church growth or prestige: it’s proclaiming grace.

Paul is a model of spiritual maturity:

• He sees sacrifice as privilege, not burden.
• He views ministry as stewardship, not status.
• He defines success as finishing, not starting.

Paul was a man ignited by God and determined to see the mission through, no matter the cost.

God never recharges you just to feel better — The recharging is a reigniting to continue your assignment!

Recharging is Not the Goal — Releasing Is

Mark 16:15 (NIV)

A Spiritual recharge is a reignited fire is not meant to be admired but applied.

God Lights the Fire, But We Tend the Flame

• We don’t stay on fire accidentally.
• What you don’t feed will fade.
• What you don’t stir will settle.
• What you don’t act on will dry up!

Fire is sustained by action. The evidence of a Spirit-filled life isn’t volume, it’s movement!”

Our Declaration: “Lord, I won’t just be recharged — I will be reignited and respond.

Story: William Borden: 1887 – 1913

• Raised in privilege: Borden’s father made a fortune in silver mining.
• Educated at Yale University.
• Known not just for academic excellence,
• Deep spiritual fire is what attracted attention!
• In college, Borden felt called by God to be a missionary to Muslim communities in China.
• His peers thought he was wasting his life.
• His family thought he was being radical
• After graduating Yale attended Princeton Theological Seminary.
• After Princetown involved in many
• Board member of National Bible Institute, NY & assumed control of ministry.
• He became a director of Moody Bible Institute 
• At 22, member of the North American Council of the China Inland Mission.
• Appointed him a missionary.
• Decided to study Islam and Arabic in Cairo, Egypt before China.
• Contracted meningitis dying three weeks later.
• Left $800k to China Inland Mission. $25 million today’s money.
• Today China Inland Missions OMF International (oversees missionary fellowship).
• 160 years old! 1400 global workers worldwide!
• Grave Marker: “Apart from faith in Christ, there is no explanation of such a life.
• Bordan confessed God had “Recharged his life!”