This was created for men who want to take that extra step… for men who want to begin serious, passionate ministry in and through Full Count Ministries.

We encourage you to do this for a daily or weekly devotional with your DGroup.

Table of Contents

Day One // ZEAL

Day Two // Zestful

Day Three // Empowered

Day Four // Ardent

Day Five // Life

Introduction to the Study on ZEAL

No, this study won’t do anything for us on it’s own! Zeal is formed from relationship with the Lord and in a community of believers. Through five days, the text here will give us a foundation, but it’s up to us to seek zeal and ask for it from the Lord in our life. At Full Count, we train for an eternal crown, and relationships take work. You may know what zeal is and are now living in that kind of relationship with God, but it’s never a bad thing to revisit scripture and ask for more!

We all need rekindling at times. Don’t feel ashamed if you’ve been in a weird place. Let this be a time of rejuvenation and beginning of something great. Do you believe that you’ve arrived in your relationship with God already? Let it be our prayer as a ministry that we all have zeal to see baseball players, far from God, impacted and transformed into leaders in Full Count in their own circles and communities – for more baseball players to catch the flame! 

You’ll see that every day has a definition of the word being studied, a song, a scriptural highlight, a reading, prayer prompts, and reflection questions. A challenge for you would be to do this daily and then share your thoughts, answers to the prompt questions, and your own prayers with other men this week and the weeks to come. Let these ideas sink into your soul, be transparent, allow the Holy Spirit to work in us, and it will benefit us all! God bless you as you walk through zeal. Let it be the beginning of something great!

God bless you! Let’s pull together and let the Holy Spirit cultivate the flame!

ZEAL in Scripture

Romans 10:2

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

Romans 12:11

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Isaiah 59:17

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.

Titus 2:14

…who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words.

Philippians 1:27

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,

2 Corinthians 9:2

For I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.

John 2:17

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Psalm 69:9

For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Romans 10:1

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

1 Corinthians 14:12

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.