Focus

Focus

Perhaps you started with big dreams in your hearts- you’re going to excel in your careers, excel as parents, and excel in your walk with God. You get started, but then things get difficult, and achieving your goals doesn’t happen as quickly as you had hoped.

Discouragement sets in, and we start to give up.

We start to lose focus, it doesn’t seem as clear as it once did.

1. Focus on Your Goals
Isaiah 51
A Call to Trust the Lord
1 “Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance—
all who seek the Lord!
Consider the rock from which you were cut,
the quarry from which you were mined
Your vision, what you see, has a tremendous impact in your life.
If you focus on an image of success in your mind, you’re going to move toward success, but if you see yourself as barely getting by, your marriage getting worse, your health going downhill, then most likely your life will gravitate towards those negative situations.
We need to quit allowing our imaginations to keep us beaten down.
Keep your goals you want to see come to pass in front of you.
That image will set the limits for your life.

2. Eyes of Faith
Genesis 15:5:
5 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
Why did God tell Abraham to go out and look at the stars?
Because God knew Abraham needed to get a picture of it in his mind.
Abraham and Sarah were old and childless, and in the natural, it was an impossible situation.
Whenever they looked up at the stars they were reminded of Gods promise.
They began to see the promise through eyes of faith.
You can’t give birth to a dream you have not first conceived.
You must conceive it on the inside through your eyes of faith before it will come to pass on the outside.
Change what you’re seeing, and you will change what you’re producing.

3. Break the Curse
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 - "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse - the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known."
If your family has a long history of sickness and disease, divorce, or poverty, don’t sit back and see yourself the same way: “Well, I guess this is my lot in life.”
No, you more than anybody else need to start developing a new picture.
You need to see yourself as strong, healthy, and living a long, satisfied life.
You can be the one to break that curse.
But the first thing you must do is change the image you have of yourself on the inside.


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