KEEP our focus on HIM this LAST VERY IMPORTANT MOMENTS BEFORE HE COMES

DON’T ALLOW YOUR FOCUS TO SHIFT!

Hebrews 12:2
“Looking unto JESUS the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our FAITH”.

If your FOCUS has SHIFTED - REALIGN your FOCUS back onto JESUS!

Hebrews 12:2 says that we need to be LOOKING to JESUS, the AUTHOR and the FINISHER of our FAITH!

WITHOUT JESUS you will NOT FINISH the race!

He has BEGUN a GOOD WORK in you and He wants it to CONTINUE until He comes!!!

To see something DIFFERENT, you need to CHANGE your FOCUS! Many people are focused on the TEMPORAL: this EARTH, MONEY, SEX, INSTANT GRATIFICATION!

SATAN even tried this on JESUS, to try and SHIFT HIS FOCUS:

“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungered. 3 And when the tempter came to him, He said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”.

Did you catch it in v. 3? “IF You are the Son of God”. Are you kidding me? “Command these stones to become bread”.

The INSTANT GRATIFICATION! FORGET Your RELIANCE upon GOD. Think about your STOMACH?

What about YOU? The TEMPTATION ISN’T FOOD, it’s a SHIFT in FOCUS!

Look at JESUS’ RESPONSE in v. 4: “Man shall NOT live on BREAD ALONE”.

NOT on INSTANT GRATIFICATION ALONE!

We DON’T ONLY live naturally, but SUPERNATURALLY. “But by EVERY WORD of GOD”!

JESUS’ FOCUS DOESN’T SHIFT! It was already in the RIGHT PLACE
How would YOU and I have RESPONDED? Is it possible to KEEP our focus? We’re “ONLY HUMAN”.

You must CHOOSE SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION to KEEP FOCUSED!

One path is FASTING! You mean, “SKIP A MEAL”? WHY fasting?

“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly” (Mat. 6:16-18).

FASTING is a form of WORSHIP. Showing RELIANCE upon GOD - abstaining for SPIRITUAL PURPOSES. It SHOWS you the things that CONTROL you. Those TEMPORAL FOCUSES.

The path leads to an ETERNAL FOCUS. More than that, a RELIANCE upon GOD ALONE. NOT your CAR, MONEY, JOB, SEX or STATUS!

See how JESUS used fasting to PREPARE for the CHALLENGE! In the same way WE should be fasting so that when the time comes we DON’T SHIFT our FOCUS!

Are you dealing with INSTANT GRATIFICATION today?
I challenge you to begin FASTING. I challenge you to SHIFT your focus to the ETERNAL!

Today we're all about BRINGING YOUR ATTENTION BACK TO GOD!

Can I have your ATTENTION?

DISTRACTIONS are all around us. Distractions from VISION, distractions from WHOM GOD REALLY IS, distractions from HIS POWER and HIS WORD for your life. So it's time to set your SPIRITUAL EYES back upon JESUS

He's the ONLY ONE Who matters, it's all about HIM!

If you DON’T have your EYES FOCUSED upon HIM, then it's on something else !

It's time to RESET your PRIORITIES!

1 Cor 9:24 talks about our lives being in a RACE, and all of us run it for a PRIZE. Make sure that the PRIZE you've got, the VISION, the GOAL you've got, is JESUS! He is the ULTIMATE PRIZE!

Paul said that 'this ONE thing I do, FORSAKING everything else, I run to WIN the prize of the HIGH CALLING, which is FOUND in JESUS CHRIST!

You will have DEFINITE VISION, when JESUS is the TRUE REASON for your running.

Philippians 3:13-14 "I PRESS towards the MARK/GOAL/PRIZE …"

Like an ARROW AIMED DIRECTLY at the CENTER of a TARGET!

Jesus said that the ROAD TO LIFE was NARROW and STRAIGHT. It's a road you DON’T WANT to be DISTRACTED from, which could cause you to VEER OFF to one side or another.

Let's make a WHOLE-HEARTED COMMITMENT to follow JESUS!!

Remember, to FOLLOW someone SUCCESSFULLY, you need to KEEP your eyes on WHERE their heading!!

Try following someone and then take your EYES OFF them, like in the old private eye movies, and you end up LOSING the PERSON your after!

Jesus said: FOLLOW ME, not anything else!

If we KEEP our focus on HIM this LAST VERY IMPORTANT MOMENTS BEFORE HE COMES, then I guarantee you, you'll be led towards all that's GOOD for your life!!!!