Tag: focus

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Daily worship is not limited to showing up to a building on a Sunday morning. Worship is not just song and dance. Worship is not just a preached word from a high and lifted place. Worship is an everyday act of representing God in many spaces. 

It is difficult to imagine that worship is a daily practice. It is even more difficult to understand that worship is a sacrificial act of love towards God and people. The way that I treat you reflects my sacrificial worship. The way I pray for you Represents my worship. The way I address and deal with my enemies is also a sacrificial act.

There are days when the sacrifice feels just a little more painful. Times come when we don’t desire give anything. It becomes a serious challenge to continue When it feels like your worship is not acknowledged. But whose acknowledgment are we waiting on? The tension that lies with every human being is the desire to please God and the acknowledgment of a human being. As we live, we must do our best to always seek the affirmation of God. Why? Because human validation is temporary. However, God‘s well done lasts an eternity.

Numbers 14:20-24

Then the LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word. But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

So many times we get close to the promise of God, but some issue comes to the forefront that impedes our progress. Churches, organizations, families, and other groups of people sometimes delay themselves from seeing the fulfillment of a promise. Because of delay, we begin to question whether or not we will ever see The end of the road.

 I have discovered that many people can get in the way of a good thing. When you assemble enough egos in one room, a good thing can be missed because of group think and toxic fear. The world has adopted the idea That manifesting great things is better than actually taking the path. God would layout for us to obtain every promise.

Imagine, believing lies and fear from people that say they want better. They have seen everything that God has promised with their own eyes, yet they are willing to muddy every bit of the water and suggest that God is not true to God‘s word. Imagine being in literal walking distance of everything you have ever heard only to be shut out by your rebellion and disobedience. Now imagine you have to wait for others to die off so you can finally Embrace the totality of the promise of God.

In this new season of life, I can only offer one thought when it comes to dismissing yourself from group thinking. I want to go to Heaven. If you want to go to hell, don’t take me with you. Go all the way to hell by yourself. Never again, let anyone drag you to a place, idea, or season that does not belong to you.

II Chronicles 7:14

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

The word of the day is pivot. For whatever reason, God did not allow me to rest without hearing this word constantly. I realize that I have different issues that can cause me not to sleep well. However, pivot just would not leave my brain.

In basketball, you are taught to be mindful of your pivot foot when you have stopped dribbling. Being able to pivot suggests that you have the capacity to turn at the right time. Every person must have the capacity to turn when necessary.

Many of us have plans that we want to fulfill. Those ideas and concepts have been God-given. We even have the drive to work through challenges to see those things come to pass. Yet, God may call an audible for us to address something more immediate. Sometimes, we must address circumstances that require more attention. 

We must have the humility to remember our calling and pray about every circumstance. We must seek the face of God so that we’re always in line with the will that must be done. Otherwise, we will have submitted ourselves to the evil that is present and become complicit in its prevailing due to our silence before God.