All posts tagged: Focus

Take Up Thy Cross

Take up thy cross, the Saviour said,
If thou wouldst My disciple be;
Deny thyself, the world forsake,
And humbly follow after Me.

FIVE STEPS TO THANKSGIVING: STEP 5 | Enter Into His Gates

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Brothers and sisters, thanksgiving is not an arbitrary concept. Thanksgiving is a consequence of our faithful response to God, Himself.

FIVE STEPS TO THANKSGIVING: STEP 1 | Forget Self and Praise God

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The first step to thanksgiving… is learning to take our eyes off our concerns, our feelings, our hang-ups and focusing on Him, exclusively. We must first forget our selves to truly praise our God.

Foundation for Faithfulness

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As long as we focus and God and His Word, as long as we depend on Him and not ourselves, as long as we keep close to Him, we have ALL we need to live faithfully: we will not be moved.

Real Rest

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Rest can be defined as freedom from strife, freedom from anxiety. But, apart from God there is no rest: man cannot free himself of strife and anxiety.

Faith: More than meets the Eye

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Faith is not the ignorance of reality; it is the entrance into a reality that the world cannot begin to see.

Jesus taught that if our eye, or the way we see things, is healthy, then our life can be filled with happiness. But if the way we see things, if our outlook or mindset is messed up, there is no end to how dark our life can be.