Where's your Focus?
Where's your Focus?
Recently Conley and I had the opportunity to meet with people with a common goal, a common purpose. We gathered as a body of believers to pray over a specific subject.
NO hidden agendas, no selfish ambitions.
We gathered to glorify God and to ask for his deliverance. What a powerful weekend it was!
I left more on fire for GOD then I have ever been in my life. I left there with a renewed vision and focus. I left there hungry for a move of God. Hungry for the Word of God.
I had spent a lot of time recently with all eyes on me and my surroundings. A selfish outlook really. My life, my kids, my family. my husband,
ME-ME-ME!
What I realized at the gathering was that I needed to expand my thoughts, my visions, my prayers outside of the 'me' realm. I realized that I needed to step up into the boldness within me and begin walking in the fullness of who God created me to be. Instead of being absent minded about important issues, I need to be faith minded!
Yes it does matter what is going on outside of my little bubble.
I think a lot of times fear keeps us in the bubble. We only want to know what we can control. I can control my family environment for the most part. I cannot 'control' what is going on in the world.
But just because I cannot control it, doesn't mean I shouldn't care about it.
I will not let what is going on around me affect my faith.
MY faith and MY foundation are in God.
No matter what is going on in the world I trust God.
I must step up and begin to express my faith in prayer and begin praying for people. Begin loving people. Because yes what I do as a believer matters.
When I began taking the focus off of my problems, my insignificant groaning
and began lifting others up, praying for our nation, praying for my state, all the little petty things in my life became less and less important,
I became less and less mindful of them.
So today, I encourage you to humble yourself and pray.
"And My people who are called by My name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14
Recently Conley and I had the opportunity to meet with people with a common goal, a common purpose. We gathered as a body of believers to pray over a specific subject.
I think a lot of times fear keeps us in the bubble. We only want to know what we can control. I can control my family environment for the most part. I cannot 'control' what is going on in the world.
But just because I cannot control it, doesn't mean I shouldn't care about it.
I will not let what is going on around me affect my faith.
MY faith and MY foundation are in God.
No matter what is going on in the world I trust God.
I must step up and begin to express my faith in prayer and begin praying for people. Begin loving people. Because yes what I do as a believer matters.
When I began taking the focus off of my problems, my insignificant groaning
and began lifting others up, praying for our nation, praying for my state, all the little petty things in my life became less and less important,
I became less and less mindful of them.
So today, I encourage you to humble yourself and pray.
"And My people who are called by My name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14
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