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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP455 THE DEAL

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: THE DEAL

Most everyone has seen the game show Let’s Make A Deal. The contestants have different curtains to choose from. Each one contains a prize or a Zonk. If you get the Zonk it means you don’t get the big prize. People often have a good prize in their hands and choose to risk it all for a bigger prize. The only thing is that prize is not guaranteed.

Still time and again they allow greed to override their good judgment and end up with nothing. This is us standing in front of things the enemy offers, we really don’t know what we are getting until the curtain opens and it’s too late.

We have the ultimate prize of God’s freedom, peace and fellowship, yet we risk it for a lesser prize of sin or temptation that turns out to be a zonk. There is nothing in this life satan can offer that would come close to comparing to what God has done for us. It doesn’t matter what we are facing in life, we need to keep pressing on to the prize that Jesus gives. We do not have time to be distracted by the enemy’s lies and deception.

If he can not draw us into sin then he will try to slow us down in other ways. He doesn’t want us to run the race that God has set before us. Satan doesn’t want us to get to the finish line strong. He wants to discourage us and get us to give up.

Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

The phrase set my face like a flint, means I will have unwavering, unyielding determination to keep fighting the good fight of faith. Even if we have to do it from a place of what seems like weakness. When we are weak God is strong, he alone will not allow us to be overtaken by our enemy. We just have to fight our flesh to not give up. God will send angels to fight for us.

Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

To be in God’s presence for all eternity is a prize worth fighting for, so don’t settle for a consolation prize from the enemy.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP543–TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN LIES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN LIES

The truth is always stronger than a lie. In the face of truth, a lie will always fail and fall short. But still our enemy tries to create doubt and make us want to turn to a lie.

Prov 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

The word specifically says that lying lips are an abomination. What does that mean exactly? Abomination means disgrace, something that causes disgust or hatred. God hates lies.

Prov 12:17-18 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Because our heavenly father is the God of Truth. When we speak truth, it honors our God. Lies can be harmful like being pierced with a sword. The words of the righteous are health and life.

As his children, everything we say needs to bring honor to God. We must walk with integrity and in the power of his love and truth. Our words have power. Many times, I have told you that our words are life.

Exposure of lies and half-truths always happens when the truth comes to light. God’s truth will always set us free from any bondage created by a lie.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Lies tie people up, haven’t you ever heard of a web of lies. Some people get so wrapped up in lies they can not remember them all. Deception has its own stress. But when you speak truth, you don’t have to keep up with the lies. Remember truth is stronger than lies.

Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

This is what we must do as children of God. Not only are we to not speak lies but it also says not to speak guile, which means to be sly or cunning. Speak in order to manipulate someone.

The enemy is the master of manipulation. He can take the truth and twist it just enough that it sounds like the truth. This is why we have to ask God for his discernment. His spirit will lead us the way we must go. As long as we follow his lead we will know the truth and it will shatter all of satan’s lies.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING –EP452 COMPLETE IN CHRIST

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: COMPLETE IN CHRIST

Everything we will ever need is in Christ Jesus. He has saved us in every way from sickness, sin and death.

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

When we give our lives to Christ for the first time we become a new creature. Our old life and way of doing things have passed away, and who we are becomes new. We have a new path laid out before us. One of truth and honor. But the enemy will try to get us to fall into a place that we lack integrity. He will do everything he can to draw us back into the sinful life we had before Christ.

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

The enemy will try to get us to doubt ourselves, doubt our salvation, doubt every choice we make in life. But the answers we need are all in him. Complete means entire and full. The fullness of the godhead is in him. The fullness of everything we need is in him.

Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

The life we live now is by our faith in Christ because he gave his life for us. The work of the cross completed the plan for everything we would ever need. We have no reason to allow fear to overtake us. Fear comes from our enemy. If we are complete in Christ there is no room for fear or anxiety. Every time the enemy comes with his fear, send him away with a reminder that you have no reason to fear, because you are complete in Christ.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP447 ENCOURAGING WORDS

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: ENCOURAGING WORDS

We often look to others when we are discouraged for them to say just the right thing to encourage us. It is good to be surrounded by encouraging people. I am blessed to have people in my circle to care and encourage me. God however is our reason to be encouraged.

At times God is quiet and we get discouraged. He wants us to be like David and encourage ourselves. There are times when we have to dig down deep and find encouragement within. Job had to find his strength to keep going on because the enemy had been allowed to remove anyone who would be encouraging. Job believed God and determined within himself to keep going.

1 Sam 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

David was another one that was deeply discouraged. His army wanted to destroy him after their families had been taken at ziglag. But David prayed and God told him to pursue his enemies. He overtook them and recovered what the enemy had stolen.

We cannot allow the enemy to steal our peace. He cannot have our strength. We cannot allow him to discourage us. It is going to take us digging deep to find that encouragement. Remembering what God has already done for us will go a long way in us finding what we need to keep going.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP446 HONORING GOD

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: HONORING GOD

Christians often say, “The word works.” By this we mean that we can rely on the word of God. He has spoken over us and breathed into us life. He formed us in our mother’s womb and created us for a purpose. The word says we walk in victory.

There used to be a commercial that encouraged kid’s to read. It said, knowledge is power. The more we dig into God word the more we understand his power and anointing. We must learn to honor God and his word. Knowing the word will give us power to overcome whatever the enemy throws at us.

As God’s children it is time to be fully committed to following Jesus. The days of going through the motions is gone. We are at a moment of no return. People must decide if they are all in or if they are out. Now is not the time to be indecisive. Now is the time to honor our God with every thing we say or do.

Col 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Men will not understand who we are and what we do. The closer to God we get the less people are going to understand it. Whatsoever you do, we have to do it for the Lord and not worry about what people think. We must honor God and his will for our lives.

I Thes. 4:7-8 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

God has called us to live holy and honor the Holy Ghost which is within us. He desires for us to draw closer to him. The more we honor him the more we will walk in the presence and power of his anointing. It means yielding your will fully to God.

Psalm 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

We honor God by loving him with all of our heart. We worship him in spirit and truth. We pray and stay connected to him. We honor him by serving God with our gifts and talents that he has given us. We are showing him respect for what he has given us, by using what he has given us to honor him. We honor God by treating others with respect and by trying to help them in any way we are capable of helping.

We honor him with all the resources we have at our disposal including our time. I want to encourage you to honor God with all you have within you. We honor him by acknowledging that we are not anything without him.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP444 FINDING VICTORY

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: FINDING VICTORY

You can be an overcomer. You can walk in victory. Yesterday I talked to you about finding surrender. It is going to take us surrendering to God to be able to walk in victory. I want to share with you some verses that will encourage you.

Everyday we are in a spiritual battle. Somedays we have to fight and fight hard. Other times the enemy backs off to lick his wounds and try to find a different approach to tear us down. But make no mistake, God will not let us be overtaken by the enemy. When the battles seem to be the hardest, we can rest in the fact that we will overcome by the blood of the Lamb.

I John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

We cannot overcome the world unless we are born of God. This is why it is so hard for people sometimes to make the first step toward yielding to Christ. Because they do not have enough overcoming power yet. It truly takes a large step of faith. But we gain victory in our initial surrender.

Rom 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

In tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril or threat of the sword we are greater than a conqueror, more than a conqueror through Jesus that loved us. If the power of God lives within us, we can overcome whatever we face. God will not allow us to face anything we are not ready to handle.

I Cor. 15:57-58 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Victory is a gift from God through Jesus and the power we have been give from him. It is not our efforts or strength; victory comes from our obedience and surrender.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

We too can overcome the world because Jesus gives us victory. He is our peace and strength. Finding victory means that our faith aligns to what God says and not what our circumstances says. The report of the enemy will fail in the light of God’s power. We have to believe God’s report. His word, his report says that we have victory over our enemy. We must come into alignment with his word, which says we have the victory.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP443 FINDING SURRENDER

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: FINDING SURRENDER

We often think about total surrender to the will of God as an amazing place. But our flesh wants to fight against that perfect place. In the surrender is everything we will ever need, God’s peace, joy, strength, salvation, hope and love. The struggle is not a new one but is as old as Adam and Eve. They lost their surrender to God when they ate of the tree that God told them to not eat. Their disobedience led to our struggles today.

Even Jesus prayed, let this cup pass from me. The man part of Jesus didn’t want to endure the pain and suffering. Then he did what we all need to learn to do more easily, he surrendered his will to the Father. He said not my will but yours be done.

Surrender to God and his will is not a one-time thing. Many feels like when they repent and ask Jesus to be Lord of their life that they have surrendered. That is just the beginning of our surrender. It is an everyday, several times a day thing. We have to strengthen our inner man. While our freshly one is kicking and screaming, wanting control.

Surrender is extremely hard for type A personalities, ones that are used to being in control. Intellectually we understand that God is good and only has our best interests at heart. We know we can trust him to take care of us and give us a good outcome. We understand he can give us a better outcome than we can get on our own. We know he is loving and will not do anything to be cruel. Yet we find ourselves pulling back out of fear.

Reading the Psalms you will see David struggled with surrender at times. He fell down; he committed sin. Yet he was a man after God’s heart, because he worshiped and surrendered a large portion of the time to God and his will.

The closer we get to God the less people are going to understand us. But by following a little closer and surrendering more, we will be better equipped to do the work of the Lord, thus being a help to those around us.

How do we get to that surrender? How do we stay there? These questions are hard to answer.

Surrender means recognizing we need to humble ourselves before God and yield to his authority. Give up our control and deny our person ambitions.

Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

It comes down to a made-up mind to follow Christ, no matter the cost. It means that we will say I trust you Lord to know what to do, even when I am unsure.

Matt 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

It takes daily struggling to put God first by denying our fleshly will. It is a conscious decision to surrender our will. Praying daily asking God to guide our day and learning and knowing his word are ways of submitting to God.

This is why Paul said I die daily. He understood taking up the cross daily and living a life of surrender to God’s will and not his desires.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

By daily doing what we believe is the right thing and God’s will we are living sacrifices unto God. It takes commitment every day to say, God I want your will today and not my will. I submit myself to you today to do your will above my own. Surrender is not a one-time act of repentance, it goes beyond that one time. Although that is a good start, we must learn how to walk in the spirit.

Gal. 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Walking in the Spirit, by faith is the key to finding total surrender. It is an everyday choice to take up our cross and follow Jesus.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP 442 STILL WATERS

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: STILL WATERS

As our shepherd Jesus watches over us. There are so many deep things in just the few verses of the 23rd Psalm.

PSALM 23:1-3 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

The first three verses alone tell us we will not want, he will take us to a place where we can have what we need. Like a shepherd leads his sheep into green pastures, for them that is a place of abundance. In an open pasture there is less chance of attack from an enemy, because they are in the open where the shepherd can watch them.

Sheep are terrified of moving water. If they fall in, they will drown, because their fleece will soak up water. They will not drink from moving streams even when thirsty. The shepherd knows this about his sheep and finds still waters or dams up water to give a sense of safety and rest to his sheep.

He leads us to green pastures and still waters because he wants to refresh and renew us. Sheep are dumb and will drink from any non-moving water, even muddy or stagnate. This is why the shepherd has to keep constant eye on his sheep.

God is a hand’s on God, he watches over us twenty-four seven. He will lead and guide us into all truth if we depend on him.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Our strength is renewed when we wait for him to lead us to that place of rest. Then our strength is renewed. His path of righteousness is our strengthening place. If you have ever stood on the edge of a body of water, a lake for example and there is not a lot of people around. The breeze blows gently on your face and you feel like God is quieting all your anxiety and stress. It is like peace washes over you, when you look for God in the gentle breeze beside the still water.

Anxiety and depression cannot overwhelm us when we find that place of peace in Jesus. He will destroy our emotional triggers and remove our anxiety, depressions and fears. Fear is not from God and he will remove all our fears, because he is our good shepherd. We have to be willing to give him our cares. He knows the things we think and fear. He hears the enemy whispering in our ears. He will counteract those lies if we seek for our shepherd to give us peace.

Only in him can we get out soul renewed and restored. He will strengthen us when we become weak. All the cares of this life that tries to drag us down, he will lift us up above them. When we find ourselves battle weary, we must find our way to a place of quiet and allow him to refresh and restore our souls. This will give us what we need to keep moving on and doing the will of our good shepherd.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP434 FAITH

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: Faith

Good Morning, today I want to touch on the foundation of a believer. We must first develop enough faith to believe that there is a God and his word is true. We must believe that he wants to save us from our sins. Developing faith is the beginning of having Godly wisdom.

HEB 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Without faith we cannot please God. He wants us to trust him. He wants us to believe in him and his word. Anyone who comes to him must believe or have faith that he is God. Some do not believe that God exists. He is a rewarder of those who believe in Him. Jesus desires for us to have faith and trust him. He will pour out blessings on his people.

Faith mean that we see things with our hearts that we cannot yet see with our eyes. We have to call things that are not as though they already are in our tangible world; like Abraham.

Our faith in God gives us a heart to help others. Our faith is a fruit or byproduct of God’s Spirit indwelling in us. We walk by this faith which helps us to grow and be a light to others.

I want to be found walking by faith and not by how the enemy would spin the truth to make things appear. We can not rely on how things seem, we have to see them through God’s eyes. We need to see them through the eyes of faith. Yes it may seem scary, but faith says that God will not leave us to deal with our troubles and trials alone.

Faith means that no matter what we are facing, we trust him. He will not fail us.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP432 I’VE GOT YOUR BACK

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: I’VE GOT YOUR BACK

I want to apologize for not having any videos last week. So I am pre-recording videos for the week. I have a family member in the hospital and was not home to do the videos last week. The last episode, I touched on the subject of how we are at war. Our weapons against our enemy include the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God, our worship, and prayer.

Never underestimate the power of a prayer warrior, when they decide to battle. They spend countless hours praying and it shows. Because when they pray God answers. Today, I want to talk to you about our words. Do we war in prayer, then crush our prayer seeds when we get up from prayer, by speaking negative unbelief?

We have to walk the walk and talk the talk. There is no room for unbelief in the life of a child of God. Moses sent spies out to check out the promised land. Ten returned with negative words. They looked at how big the giants were and compared themselves to the giants. They forgot they would not battle the giants alone. We cannot look at how big the giants are, but be willing to walk by faith and compare the giants to our God.

It wouldn’t be called a battle if it were easy. The very word battle means a long hard fight. It means you must have determination to win, so you dig in your heels and brace yourself for the struggle. Just when you think you cannot go on, Jesus will reach down and take the load of your battle.

Eccl 4:9-10 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

It is good to have a circle of people that are prayer warriors. Those who will lift you up when the battle becomes intense.

There is a phrase people often use that means I am here to fight with you against the enemy. It means you are watching out for them, “I’ve got your back.” When, I think about helping a friend fight their battles in prayer, my mind wanders to the two soldiers that are back to back. Together they have a 360 degree view of the enemy. That way they are never caught off guard. They are protecting each other’s backs. The enemy cannot sneak up behind either one.

In this day and time, we need each other and most of all we need the Lord to watch over us so that we are not overtaken by our enemy.

Luke 10:19: Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

In other words, Jesus gave his believers power to overcome the enemy. The serpents and scorpions represent evil spirits and attacks. We will not be harmed because God has got our backs. He will not allow the enemy to overtake us.

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