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KEEPING FOCUS AND COURAGE

How many battles were lost in the last minutes because one side slowed down? When in a sports competition, many games are lost in the last few minutes because one side either got cocky and lost focus or the team was sure of defeat and lost courage. Focus and courage is what it is going to take for us to win our battle against our enemy.

We cannot feel like since things appear to be turning our way, that we can let down. We cannot lose courage that things will turn out in the favor of our enemy. Now is the time to double down and make sure our courage doesn’t fail.

We need to stop and take a deep breath every now and then. We need to check our lives to make sure we are on track. The word says we need to meditate on God’s word. I know I say it often, but we are to hide his word in our hearts. The more of the word we have inside of us, the less likely we are to fall into sin. If we keep our focus on God, we will get where we are supposed to be.

Psalm 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

It is the job of the enemy to distract and destroy. If he can distract us from our focus on God he has won half the battle. Knowing the tactics of the enemy will help us to avoid his traps. He is good at reading us, then we say things out of our mouth that is negative. Satan will take the negative talk and help it to become a reality in our lives. He may notice our flesh struggling with something; he will do all he can to turn up the pressure to get us to fall into sin.

Look at Samson, he was drawn to Delilah. The enemy noticed how he was taken with her and used her to bring him down. He didn’t tell her where his strength came from the first time she asked. But she kept working on him, manipulating and sweet talking to him until he surrendered.

We are no different, satan keeps coming at us like a spider. When a bug is caught in the web of a spider, it goes to it and bites it. But it doesn’t kill it’s prey all at once, it goes to it a few times and bites it, until it dies.  Satan is the same way, if he would approach you head on full force, we would resist. But he comes a little at a time. “That little thing will not matter” how many times have we thought or said those words.

PROV 4:18-22 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

The word tells us to not let God’s sayings, or his word depart from our eyes and to keep them in our hearts. The words written in the Bible are life both spiritually and physically to us.

 Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Diligence means careful, persistent effort. We are to keep our heart with a careful, persistent effort to stay on the right path. It is my firm belief that if we can learn to keep our “God Focus” he will lead us the right way. If we all can learn to let him lead, all the denominational boundaries will fall away. But first, we have to all learn how to focus on God. Put him in the center of our lives where he belongs. We have made things too complicated.

Prov 4:24-27 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Notice verse twenty-five says don’t look right or left. Then the next verse says that we need to think about the path of our feet. This is when we take time to slow down and check our focus. The next verse says to not turn right or left to remover our foot from evil.

It all starts with where we look and focus on, then we ponder, then we stick our foot into sin. We can save ourselves a lot of grief if we can just learn to keep our focus on God.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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