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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  PRESSING ON

Anything worthwhile takes time. Mastering skills and learning new things, always requires time and study. Athletes train for years for that one day they are in the big leagues. The Olympics, the super bowl or world series. For them they have decided that the prize is worth striving for, the sense of accomplishment of finishing their race strong. They have a built-in determination to push themselves beyond their limits.  Training means constantly pushing the boundaries of what you can do. Setting new boundaries and then breaking them.

Runners that run distance races learn how to pace themselves early in the race. While they are the strongest. When the time comes that their strength is starting to fade, they can dig deep and push themselves. Imagine running out of strength from sprinting, you go to push yourself and realize you still have miles to go with an empty tank of energy and strength. Many often lose the race because they burn out.

But imagine you started that race along side of the sprinter. For a while it looked like they were going to win. They were so far ahead, that they ran ahead of God. Soon they grew cold and lack strength because they didn’t run their race with patience and with God.

Heb12:1-2 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.

How do we run the race that is set before us? Verse 2 Looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith.  He has his pen and is writing our story.  He is the finisher of our faith, it was all finished on the cross. He tells us to lay aside our weights and sins. We only have the capacity to carry a certain amount of weight.

Example: Let’s say all the weight you can carry is twenty pounds.  It doesn’t matter if those twenty pounds is in rocks or feathers, it is all you can carry. God has responsibilities he wants us to carry. But if we are so bogged down by the cares or weights of this life, we will not have the capacity to carry anymore. That is why we must set aside the things we are not meant to carry. This frees us up to have room to carry what God has for us.

Phil 3:13 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.

We cannot get caught up in the past. We need to forget the issues of yesterday. Today is the day to reach forward and try to grasp what God has in store for us. We can dig deep and press toward the goal. As the world grows dark, we are called to be a light. It takes us pressing forward to be that light.

When I think about pressing forward or digging down and pushing ourselves to keep going. I think about the oil press. How it takes the fruit to be pressed to release the precious oil. We sometimes have to be squeezed for the anointing to come out of us. That anointing can break the yoke of the enemy. That anointing can pour over on others giving them what they need to press on.

I COR. 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

The enemy will try to get us to fall into temptation. He wants us to get burnt out, stressed out and pressed in from all sides. His job is to get us to give up. But we have to press on, push him aside, fight for the right things, stand strong on the word of God.

The enemy will press in until we take the authority, God has given us. God will use the anointing of the Holy Ghost to break the yoke of the enemy. Allowing us to press on toward the prize. Which is hearing him say, “well done my child, enter in.”

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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