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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode: AVOID DISTRACTIONS

Our enemy will try to offer us shiny sin. He will paint it with glitz and glitter to distract us and cause us to make a bad choice. If he can distract us with sin and we freely choose to follow the enemy, then he has us trapped.

But if we choose to follow Jesus, and are resisting the enemy’s temptations, then he will try to distract us in other ways. He will cause people that follow him to give us a hard time. He will throw things at us to distract us from what we need to be doing.

Prov 4:23-27 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 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.

With every new level of growth we obtain, we will be stronger. It takes new battles to continue to strengthen us. The enemy will try even bigger distractions.  He will use our hope and dreams and try to give us what we really desire, but it is a trap. We need to wait on God to give us what we desire.

Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

If we are doing our best to delight ourselves in the Lord. We will desire to please him and delight in his ways. If we do his will, he will give us what we desire. We cannot take shortcuts offered by the enemy or we will be in a mess.

His traps often look to be exactly like the opportunity we have been waiting for, for a long time. Having discernment about God’s plans will keep us from falling into the trap.

Heb. 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

We have to set aside every weight and sin that distracts us. The enemy will not win if we keep our focus on Jesus. He has the final say and will give us what we need to stand against the enemy. Not only do we have the whole armor of God. But God himself has promised to be our defense.

Isaiah 54: 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

No weapon the enemy creates to use against us will prosper as long as we allow God to lead our lives. He is our strength and our shield.

Psalm 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

It doesn’t matter what distractions he tries to send our way. It doesn’t matter who he tries to use to cause us to fall into fear, anxiety, worry, sin or any other distraction, we will stand strong as long as we hold tight to our Lord.

Stand strong, my friends; the enemy may be seeking whom he may devour. But hold tight to the faith, and he will not find anyone to distract with his lies or traps.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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