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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP449 DON’T BELIEVE

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: DON’T BELIEVE

I am always encouraging you to believe God. I have given you scriptures several times about how we need to draw closer to God and believe His word. Today I want to encourage you to not believe. Don’t believe the bad reports, don’t believe the lies of the enemy. Don’t believe every person that comes into your life. The enemy sends people to bring us down, just the same as God sends people to lift us up.

If the children of Israel had not believed the lies of the ten spies, they would have crossed to the promised land. If Adam and Eve had not believed satan in the garden, they would not have lost paradise and their fellowship with God.

David didn’t believe the lies that said the giant was bigger than his God. Everyone knew how big Goliath was, they were hiding in fear of his size. But David didn’t allow the narrative to draw him from his faith. He didn’t believe the lies that Goliath would surely win, because David said, He is big to us, but he is small to our God.

Today I want to encourage you to listen to the voices around you. Think about what they are saying and then Don’t believe the lies of the enemy. He is out to destroy us all.

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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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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP413–NOT A GRASSHOPPER

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: NOT A GRASSHOPPER

We all have a decision to make, are we just going to sit back and shake our heads about the state of the world, or are we going to do something about it. I am always quoting, we walk by faith and not by sight. This is truer today than ever before, we have to trust God and walk by faith.

Joshua and Caleb were two out of twelve that walked by faith. It is easy to walk by sight and allow circumstances to appear larger than they are, like the giants. No doubt they were huge. No doubt there were many of them. The spies sent out by Moses were at least to their waist. But they allowed fear to magnify the issue. When they returned, they told everyone they were like grasshoppers in comparison. If that were true, they would have only been as tall as their feet. This is just like the enemy to make situations appear more dire than reality. Sure, it was bad from a human perspective, but the enemy magnified their perception and amped up their fear.

We need to make sure we are listening to someone who is going to stand on God’s side, someone who walks by faith and not by sight. We cannot be found listening to the majority of people, because they walk by fear and not faith.

God uses times of looking at our problems and feeling small, to reinforce the idea that we may be small compared to our problems, but our God is bigger than any giant. He will always be on our side. He will always protect his people. But we have to trust.

I was thinking about how grasshoppers hop away when you get close. Maybe grasshoppers was a good definition for those ten spies. They came back and told their stories, but they didn’t have any proof of the size of the giants. They didn’t bring anything back but fear and lies.

Joshua and Caleb, on the other hand brought fruit back. They had proof that they had been to the other side. They had evidence that God’s word could be trusted. Yet how many wanted to fall back out of fear. Are we so different today? When God tells us things do we follow him, or do we allow a giant to stand in our way?

I want to be found bold and brave. I want to be like Joshua and Caleb, yes things look bad, yes, I understand the bad report, yes experts say it will not get better, the internet says it is going to get worse, but no matter how bad things seem, I want to have the fruit, the fruit of God’s spirit. His fruit will strengthen us to walk by faith and not by sight.

If we can resist the temptation to listen to the enemy, we will not be afraid. We will not jump every time something happens. We will not be grasshoppers, but brave warriors in the army of the Lord. Ready to follow where God leads us.

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EPISODE 295 DEFINING MOMENTS

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The title of today’s episode: DEFINING MOMENTS

Life is full of defining moments. The moments we take our first steps or on our first day of school, graduation. Many other defining moments of our earthly life. We also have defining moments in our spiritual lives. The day we give our lives to Christ. Many things define who we are, but none more than how we handle adversity as children of God.

A situation arises in our lives and our first reaction is to allow our emotions to rule. The enemy will attack us with fear, anxiety, stress, worry and all the emotions to get us to fall apart. Our natural instincts about situations often go against us. If we belonged in the natural world then those instincts would probably be right. But this world is not our home, we are just passing through. We cannot allow fear and worry to overtake us.

Now is the time to make a conscious decision to stand and fight against the attacks of the enemy. God wins! Nowhere in the word does it say that satan will win. It says he has no power against God. He cannot win against the power of God.

I want to remind you that the Lord is on our side. It doesn’t matter the pain, fear and stress. The situations that seem impossible in our lives to cause us to worry, are no match for our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is when we have to hit our knees in order to stand on his promises. He has promised he will take care of us. We need to dig in and fight for what is right. In most of the stories we use for inspiration there comes one defining moment. Like the moment Esther pushed open the doors of the court and approached the king. Because of her courage, evil Haman was hanged on his own gallows. Our enemy will be caught and will be stopped by our King Jesus.

At another defining moment David threw down Saul’s armor and decided to go against Goliath without it. That seemed crazy to the natural mind. You are going to battle against someone twice your size and you have no protection. At least to the natural mind he seemed to not have any protection. But he went in the name of the Lord. And God showed up at just the right moment and guided his stone. Then the enemy’s weapon was used against him to cut off his head.

Genesis 50:19-21 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery. He went through many things before the Pharaoh made him second in command in Egypt. Every elevation got him closer to God’s will. But he had to spend time in unpleasant situations. We have to walk through situations to elevate us to the place that God can use us.

What the enemy meant to destroy us; God will use to elevate us. But God is completely in control. He will not allow us to be destroyed. We may get a little uncomfortable when situations arise. But we have to remember that God will not allow us to be overtaken. Uncomfortable is a part of life, we are in a fight and warriors do not always have a comfortable life.

We can gain perspective by worship. Worship creates an atmosphere that gives us joy and strength. As the coming days play out, we need to stay strong and keep our focus on God through worship. He will see us through. We never face our giants alone. We are close to our defining moments. Will we stand, or will we allow the enemy to get the upper hand because we have lost heart? God will give us strength if we faint not; he will make sure that we have what we need to overcome in our defining moments.

One final thing to think about today, who do you want defining you? The enemy is never right when trying to define who we are, but God says we are blessed, chosen and his. If we depend on God, we will never fail. We will see our way clearly through those defining moments.

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EPISODE 212 OPPRESSION

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The title of today’s episode: Oppression

Today I want to talk to you about oppression. Oppression means that a person is being controlled by prolonged unjust and cruel treatment. We think about communist countries and how their people are oppressed. We may think of the millions of people are being held against their will and are being forced into all sort of cruel treatment.

But I want to talk to you about spiritual oppression. It is possible for a child of God to be oppressed by the devil. If we are filled with God’s Spirit we cannot be possessed by the enemy, but we can be oppressed. Many things in life can open up opportunities for the enemy to come in and oppress us.

He sends spirits to try to distract us from our appointed duties. He will use fear, anxiety, depression, anger to control us. It is hard to sum up this subject in just a few minutes. I grew up in church, but we were never taught about how we can open portals to the enemy. Music, entertainment, the way we speak, doing things like yoga, astrology, psychic readings, and celebrating Halloween.

I know many think that yoga is just breathing and relaxing the muscles and the mind. But in doing this practice you are opening yourself up to being controlled by a spirit. Don’t take my word for it, research for yourself.

You may not think it’s a big deal to own a Buddha statue, or statues of wizards, dragons and witches. But spirits are often attached to these things. When you bring them into your home, you are opening your home to the enemy. You are giving him legal rights to torment you.

Halloween is an all-out holiday of real witches. I am not talking about the ones on television that are green with big warts on their noses. Ones with pointy hats and are afraid of water. There are people that practice the arts of darkness. They have opened their lives up to the evil things of the world. Satan is their god. The very ritual of dressing up as something that you are not is in its very nature deceptive. But many Christians every year allow themselves to be drawn into the enemy’s trap.

Let me say, I would never mistreat a child that came to my door dressed like their favorite cartoon or candy bar. As Christians, it is our responsibility to show kindness. Children don’t understand, to them, it is just dressing up and getting candy. It is all about the candy.

But we have to understand as Christians that Halloween is evil. The same people who don’t want to hear about the blood Jesus shed on the cross because it is too gruesome or graphic, are the first ones in line for the next horror movie. The people that make these movies are evil. They have real witches on set casting spells and then people willing to submit themselves to take it all into their spirit by watching.

Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

We are supposed to come out from among the evil and be set apart for the good of God. We are not supposed to allow our spirit to take in the evil of this world. There is nothing new under the sun. God’s people have always struggled with staying away from evil and keeping themselves pure. How many times did Israel go after false gods?

For many years, even as an adult Christian, I didn’t understand a lot of the things that I am starting to learn. Like for many years, I didn’t realize that all the false gods of the bible are backed by real spirits. Of course, they are all evil spirits, but I thought that these people just made up a religion and built a statue to have something that they could see.

When the word says we do not fight against flesh and blood, but spiritual wickedness in high places, it is referring to all the false gods of this world and the spirits behind them. In bible times they always built their altars to the false gods in high groves and high places.

It is time we walk closer to God. People always want to know how close they can walk to the world and still make it. That is the wrong question. We need to change our mindsets and ask How close can I walk to Jesus.

God will set us free from spiritual oppression if we ask him to, ask that he reveal places that you have opened to the enemy. They tell him you want the access to the enemy closed. Repent of allowing him in and ask for God to set you free. He will break the chains of oppression and set you free.

This was not my typical words of encouragement, but it was something that I felt needed to be said, many people are opening doors to things they are not equipped to deal with, then end up bound.

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

If we can keep our hearts right, the enemy will not be able to get a stronghold. He will not be able to oppress us if we can keep our minds on Jesus. I am completely convinced if we can keep our God Focus and not allow the things of this life to take control, we will prevail.

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BEING PERFECT

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The title of today’s episode is: BEING PERFECT

Matt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Many judgmental people that attend church often use scriptures like Matt 5:48 as a club. They use it to basically say, if you make a mistake, you are not perfect. Therefore, God is going to pour out judgment on you because you are not perfect.

If we trace this word perfect to the original text the word is teleios. It means complete in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character.

This particular verse is saying to be complete in our labor of the cross. Be complete in our growth of understanding about God’s will. To be complete in our mental and moral character.

We often feel like the word, perfect means without mistakes. But it means as good as possible. When we apply this to our Christian walk we are not saying that we will never make a mistake. We will not fall down. But when we do, God’s grace is there to make up for our short comings. But we are to strive to walk as close to God as possible.

Phil 3:13-15 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Paul was telling them that one thing that he does it to not get wrapped up in the things that are behind. He says he forgets what is behind. Then he reaches forward and tries to grasp the things that are in front of us. He presses on toward doing the will of God. Then he is saying if we are complete we will be like minded. That we are to forget what is gone and press forward to God’s will for the day ahead.

It is all about being complete in him. We are completed by him, when we are born again, his Spirit within us will give us all we need to walk out our faith walk.

Col 2:8-10 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Col 2:8 Is a warning like the one I have felt compelled to keep reinforcing. Do get caught up in basic knowledge of the world. But we are to follow Christ. Because in him is the fullness or completeness of the Godhead. We are complete or perfected in him.

Do not let judgmental people with their legalistic rules put weights on you that you were never meant to carry. Christ died to set us free from legalism. The Pharisees were so full of rules and legalism. They created hundreds of rules to help them keep the ten commandments. One was that a man and woman could not walk on the same side of the road. Therefore that would prevent him from lusting after her. Although it is a good idea to wash our hands before eating, it is not a requirement from God. But they made that a rule also. Then they brought it up to Jesus when they noticed that his disciples ate without the ritual washing of their hands.

Jesus told them if wasn’t what went into a man, but what came out of a man that defiled him. He was telling them that the venom they spewed over their legalism and rules was much more harmful than his disciples eating without washing their hands.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Jesus summed up our duty as: Love the Lord Thy God With All Your Heart, Soul and Mind and thy neighbor as thyself.

If we can focus on walking in the Love and Fear of God. And we love others as we are called to do. We will walk in completeness or perfection. Then all of the small mistakes we make along the way, God’s grace will cover them with the blood of Christ. Do not be intimidated about not being perfect, we can be through the blood of Jesus Christ.

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EPISODE 112 — SPIRITUAL GARMENTS

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The title of today’s episode is: SPIRITUAL GARMENTS

Today I want to talk to you about our spiritual garments.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

I want you to take a mental trip to your closet or dresser drawer. Wherever you keep it, you have that old T-shirt or some other article of clothing that should have been discarded long ago. Something that just fits right or feels good when you put it on. It is comfortable.

We all have one or more pieces of clothing that we do not need. Why do we still cling to them? We can’t put our robes of righteousness over top of worn-out rags. We need to get rid of the old rags. I wonder why we cling to the filthy rags of the past. Is it because we are comfortable in the role? Have we gotten used to all of our baggage? Some would say that they hold onto their rags because they don’t want to embarrass God. Don’t we think God is embarrassed to see his children spiritually dressed as though he cares nothing for them? We need to put on the robe Jesus bought and paid for with his own blood.

Col 3:8-10 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

When we are saved we put off the old man and put on the new. Some have a hard time letting go of the old man, because they are used to being a certain way. The enemy will try to remind us at every turn about all the wrong we have done. He will try to entice us to put on that comfy old sweater of sin just one more time.

We have to be strong and close the door to the past. If we throw away the old clothes there will be nothing left for us to wear but our new ones.

The word tells us to put on certain things.

Col 3:12-14 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Notice some of the things we are told to put on happens to be fruit of the Spirit. Things like longsuffering and kindness. If we put on the garments that God gives us, we will not want to cling to our filthy rags.

Eph 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Do not allow others to be the ones to choose what you wear. Only you know who you are and who’s you are, a child of God. He has given us new clothes. It is our choice if we wear them or not.

At times in our faith walk, we get down. Things can press in from all sides causing us to have a spirit of heaviness or depression. This is a place the enemy wants us to stay. We cannot be effective if we are down and depressed.

Worship can lift us above the heaviness, if we change our focus from our problems to our God. If we enter his presence with worship and praise he will lift us out of our depression.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Put on the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness. We are told to put on the whole armor of God in the book of Ephesians. Which gives us the tools we need to be warriors in the army of the Lord.

But all of this can be summed up by getting rid of the old garments and putting on the new one, the garments that come from knowing Jesus. We are to put on Christ.

Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

What garment are you wearing?

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EPISODE 37–OLD LANDMARK

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The title of today’s episode is: “Old Landmarks”

Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

The early church didn’t neglect prayer and fellowship. We need to be consistent in the word of God. We have been given a solid foundation. Standing firm on that foundation of the apostles is the old landmark that many churches have left in order to be more modern.

Jer. 6:16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

I recently heard it said that some mega-churches took the marketing approach to building their church. They did surveys about what people wanted in a church. This is why many are nothing more than social clubs, with their coffee bars and fog machines. Without sticking to the old paths, they have gotten away from what makes “THE CHURCH” different from the world.

In order to be effective, the ministry of “THE CHURCH” has to show people that they can walk the walk and not just talk the talk. People are craving a REAL move of God. They want to know him for themselves. All the marketing in the world will not replace prayer and knowing God. Really truly digging into the word. Putting it under a microscope and asking what does this really mean. Dig deep below the superficial surface of the word.

Psalm 17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

This should be our prayer every day. Hold up my goings; in other words, support my sense of direction. Direct my way in your will. Because if you don’t, Lord, I might slip and fall.

Just like in the natural, if the wind blows strong enough it is impossible for a human to stand up. The winds of this life can spiritually knock us for a loop. Without Jesus to hold onto, it is possible that the storms of life will drown us. But he always keeps us settled and on the right path.

Let me repeat Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Landmarks can be something unique so you know what city you are in, like the arch in St Louis. It can also be as simple as a stone, which lets you know you are on the edge of your property. It is something that gives you a sense of direction, in spiritual terms. The boundaries have been set long ago by God. His words are specific. The apostles and prophets of long ago set the guidelines as a landmark to keep us on the right path.

Our path is not as clearly marked as it once was, because the church has allowed weeds to grow up over the path. The road less traveled may not be as worn down. It may take a bit of looking to ensure we are going the right way. We need to find and stick to the old path. In it and in it alone we will find our way home.

Where are the children of God who are standing on the truth of God’s word? Even we can be road markers for people to let them know which way the need to go to find God. By being steady and strong in our faith, others will take notice and will want to know how we endure the things of life.

What makes us different than those who are lost?

What are some of the road signs along the way that we can use for our guide?

Prayer, honesty, study and knowing the word, loving others, abiding by what God’s word says we need to do. Put on the whole armor of God (Eph 6) Allow the Holy Ghost inside of us to produce fruit of the spirit in our lives (Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law)

Be willing to reach down and lift another up when they have fallen.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 KJV Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 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.

Take some time today to think about the old landmarks. Do whatever it takes to find them in your life.

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BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

THE SCARIEST THING TO SAY TO GOD

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I am about to share with you the scariest thing you will ever say to God. It is ok to be honest with God and tell him what is on our minds. He knows how we feel and what we think. There is nothing we can say to him that will shock Him.

In Isaiah Chapter 6, Isaiah saw a vision of the throne of God. It is a beautiful chapter to read. I suggest you go to it and just picture it as you are reading. The angels worship constantly, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty! I want to draw attention to the fact that Isaiah was at an altar and confessed that he was simply a man. He said he was a man of unclean lips. An angel took a hot coal off of the altar and touched his lips, making them pure.

Once we have been before God and have had him to cleans us and burn out our impurities, we are ready to start walking out our faith walk.

Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Once again, God is asking if we are brave enough to say the scariest thing ever to him, “Here am I; send me.” For a control freak like me, that is a scary thing to say. Here I am, I will go where you want me to, say what you want me to, my life is fully in your hands. In other words, Jesus take the wheel. I am going to let you drive.

We all know we can trust Him. We believe He is big enough to save our souls from hell. He is big enough to solve our problems. There is so much that we trust Him for, but that last step is a big one. It is not one to be taken lightly. But in order to reach the loss of this world, it is going to take all of us being 100% sold out to the cause of Christ. (As the generations before us would say, “Be on fire for God.”)

If we ask logically, would God send us somewhere we couldn’t handle. We would say no. If someone asked, Do you trust God? Then the answer would be, “Yes, of course.” In our minds, we trust Him. Our hearts and emotions are something completely different. We hold back a little part of ourselves from Him. Many think that the sin we struggle with is our biggest battle. I believe surrendering fully is the biggest battle we will ever have with our flesh.

The flesh throws a temper tantrum, wanting us not to take this faith walk too seriously. We don’t want to get burned out and lose our witness. Some may even have a fear of falling into sin again and being a bad light. All the fears we could come up with are not as scary as full surrender.

Isaiah 45:9-13 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? 11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

The God of the universe, Our Lord Jesus Christ, is a master creator. He has everything intricately planned. He knew everything about us before we were ever conceived. His plan was put into place before the moment we drew our first breath. Nothing we do or fail to do surprises him.

Like Jonah, God knew he would run. I am sure God adjusted the schedule to deal with the delay so that Jonah was right on time for a great revival.

Potsherds in the bible were earthen vessels or broken pieces of pottery. So this is saying, who are we to be contending with God and trying to persuade the way he is making our lives. We are clay; He is the potter. He knows how to shape clay. How much water it will take and how much pressure to mold and shape it.

We can trust His hands; they were nail scared because He loved us so much. He will take care of us. We just need to dig deep and find some of that boldness that so many of the saints of old had within them. Ones who would say, I don’t care what you say, I don’t care what you do, I am going to do the will of my Father in heaven.

If you find yourself struggling with total surrender. You are not alone. The harvest is ready and needs many laborers. May we all find strength to say, Here am I; send me.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

EPISODE 27–WHY FOCUS ON GOD?

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Hello my friends:

The title of this episode is: WHY FOCUS ON GOD?

This morning, as I sat pondering the goodness of God. I was thinking about the name of my blog and my videos. God is a general term, but make no mistake, when I say God, I mean the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only true and living God. With a capital G., all of the gods of this world are not even worth mentioning unless it is to point out in a story how they were defeated by our God. When writing, we use a Capital letter because our God is the superior and only real God. All the others are little g’s. Because they cannot hold a candle to Jesus.

There is a doctrine that has deceived many, and I am sure this episode will not make some of them happy, but I have to speak the truth of God’s word. All roads do not lead to heaven. It is the biggest lie ever told by satan.

This is a universal idea created by people who do not want us to know our identity in Christ. They do not want us to understand that we have power over the enemy. They want us to be weak-minded, so we will blindly follow and not question anything. My God gave us a sound mind and the power to reason. He also will help us discern and understand things that are happening around us.

None of the little g’s, the gods of this world, died for me. They didn’t deliver me from my sins and from the pit of depression. That was Jesus, to him I owe all praise and glory.

John 14:5-7 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Back up to verse 6, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus came and died on the cross so that we could have a right to be born again. So that we could become children of God. None of the little gods of this world ever died for us. Even if they were a person at one point, they just died, and they will be judged along with everyone else. Many of the little gods of this world and their followers shed blood for them in sacrifice rituals. Jesus is the only one who shed blood for us. His blood was pure and it will redeem us from all sin.

I had a hard time finding a name for my blog and my channel that wasn’t already taken, I started to think about what I wanted to accomplish with the ministry that I had been given. I realized I wanted to encourage people to keep their focus and not be distracted by the things of the world. To keep their God Focus. If we can focus on him, everything will work out.

Col 3:1-2 3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

The word affection means to be fond of or liking. The act or process of affecting. Affecting means touching the emotions and moving. In other words, this verse is telling us that we need to worship God, talk to Him, and build a relationship with him. In doing so we will move God’s heart.

I Pet 5:6-7 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

This verse is often used to cheer people up when they are struggling. Saying we can give him our burdens and worries because he cares for us. Although that is true, it could also mean we need to cast our affections on him. We humble ourselves and show him how much we care for Him by showing him trust and worship.

We are in scary times if we look at things around us. That is why I always end with Be bold and be brave. God is needing warriors to arise and be brave, boldly declaring the truth of the Bible. If we are bold and brave, we will not walk in fear no matter how bad things look around us.

If we keep our focus on Jesus, we will walk by faith and not by how bad things look around us. I want to encourage you today to stand strong in your faith. Knowing that Jesus is the only way.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS