TOPIC: FOCUS
MEMORISE: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Proverbs 4:25
BIBLE READING: Colossian 3:1-3, Hebrews 12:1-2
Colossians 3:1 -3
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Hebrews 12:1 -2
1 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.
MESSAGE:
A man once offended a great king and should have been beheaded. However, the king decided to give him a test.
The king told him to carry water in a spoon and walk for some metres. He then told him that he would be beheaded if he spilt a single drop of water.
The king asked some people to stand on his left-hand side and rain abuses on him. On the man’s right hand side, the king asked some other people to keep praising and hailing him until he got to the finish line.
Thereafter, the man started walking, and the people on both sides did what they were told to do with all their strength.
At last, the man got to the finish line without spilling a drop of water.
The king then asked him, “Which of these people helped you succeed?” He responded, “None of them; I was carrying my life in my hands, so I did not listen to either of them.”
Beloved, you are also carrying your life in your hands. Don’t let any boy, girl, phone, internet, gossip, et cetera make you lose your focus.
Set your goals and work towards achieving them.
ACTION POINT:
List the things that are distractions to you and determine to limit your interactions with them.
HYMN 43 –
LEAD US HEAVENLY FATHER, LEAD US
1 Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us
O’er The World’s Tempestuous Sea;
Guard Us, Guide Us, Keep Us, Feed Us,
For We Have No Help But Thee,
Yet Possessing Every Blessing
If Our God Our Father Be.
2 Saviour, Breathe Forgiveness O’er Us;
All Our Weakness Thou Dost Know;
Thou Didst Tread This Earth Before Us,
Thou Didst Feel lts Keenest Woe;
Lone And Dreary, Faint And Weary,
Through The Desert Thou Didst Go.
3 Spirit Of Our God, Descending,
Fill Our Hearts With Heavenly Joy,
Love With Every Passion Blending,
Pleasure That Can Never Cloy;
Thus Provided, Pardoned, Guided,
Nothing Can Our Peace Destroy.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 32:28-52, Luke 12:35-59
AUTHORS: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE AND PASTOR FOLU ADEBOYE