Daily Focus

It is a wonderful Wednesday today. The little things in life make all the difference. Waking up five minutes earlier in the morning will make your day that much better. Sometimes a little word of encouragement makes you feel like you can climb mountains. The little habits in life  can determine whether we are successful or we fail.  As Christians those little things or those little habits make all the difference. Focus on the little things today.  " Rejoice always,  pray without ceasing,   in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  Do not quench the Spirit.  Do not despise prophecies.  Test all things; hold fast what is good.    Abstain from every form of evil." 1 Thess. 5:16-22 Make the little things about God everyday. Keep working hard. :)  Gal. 1:3-5

         Tuesday has come very quickly this week. As we grow tired we tend to let things go. Many times we let tired or being wore out be an untold excuse to sin. It is hard to stay on your game when you are tired. Those moments are when we need to be the most vigilant. The lion does not seek the strongest but the weakest. When we get tired we tend to worry. We worry a lot because we do not feel like we can do it. Things of this world begin to way us down. Then we tend to turn to worldly things to relieve that stress. Life then begins to look like a bath tub drain in use. Do not worry about what you will eat, wear, drink, and or sleep tonight. Do not let the cares of this world deceive you. Do not let the world make you think that it has any stress relief. Do not let the world lead you to believe that more worldly things will make it easy on you.   We will have tired times and easy times. In both rely on the Lord. Be strong today. The Lord i...

Monday has made its way around again. I am so glad that we get to start our week off with the Lords day. The Lords day makes Mondays a cake walk.   Perseverance is a must to be a successful Christian. We must keep our flams lit and our fires high for God. It must be added to our faith. We have to have it to make it to heaven. It is not easy. Perseverance is when the rubber hits the road. When you have spiritual sweet running down your brow, your knuckles are busted from fighting the fight, your legs have grown weary from running the race, and your exhausted from your service to the Lord perseverance is what keeps you going. Those very times will increase our perseverance. Persevere in doing good today! “to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,” 2 Pet. 1:6 “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;” Rom.5:3 “eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing goo...

        It is a wonderful Lords day. Let us enjoy the blessing of worshiping  God today!  Let your words be filled with kindness and encouragement. Let them be the words of the wise that bring refreshment or healing to another. Speak with gentleness and in a manner that comforts others. Words matter. Be careful to not just babble without thought or reflection.  That type of speech can be dangerous and cause a great deal of harm. This type of speech is reserved for the foolish.  From the inmost man comes our words and thoughts. Let them not defile us. Let us glorify God by our speech and our speech be out of holiness. “ There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.” Proverbs 12:18 " So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding?    Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out o...

It is going to be an awesome Saturday. Sin is not only wrong doing, it is also a failure in right doing, failing to do good.    We cannot forget that goodness is a positive quality. It is not merely the absence of what is bad. We must do more than just hear. We must act. We must strive for goodness. As Christians striving for goodness should be on the forefront of our mind. A moment that is not spent in useful employment is an act of sin. Jesus tells us that condemnation at judgement will be passed out to those who do not do the good He asks of us. We know what God desires of us. We know what He wants us to do. We sin in doing that which we feel uncertain is appropriate before God. We sin in knowing what we should do and not doing it. Sin is much more than just staying away from the “big nasty” ones. The one talent man was called wicked for not acting. Be very careful that in knowing how little you do for the Lord that you are not willing to pretend to be...

Friday is here! It has been an awesome week! There is no such thing as a do-nothing real Christian. The life that springs forth from within us forces itself out in holy words and actions. We will not only bear fruit but we will bear much fruit and good fruit. We must be in Christ in order to bear such wonderful fruits. If we are not in Him we lose our life, wither away, die, and are of no use but to be cast out. Those branches are gathered up and burned. Those that are in Him have His words abiding in them. His word molds us, controls our lives, and forms our character. Being in Him gives us the opportunity to ask for things according to the will of God and He will grant what we ask.  It is impossible for Christians who are in vital union with Christ to be fruitless. There is no room except for success in this situation. Take full advantage of such a blessing of success in Christ. Work doing the will of God.  Work as Christ worked. Work giving your all, all the time. What doe...

            It is a wonderful Thursday. Every day is wonderful in the Lord. For Christians knowledge is half the battle. We can know all about God’s word. We could have read the bible ten times over. We can master bible trivia.  What good is it if we do not act on it? Obtaining and keeping the knowledge of the truth is half the battle. The other half is doing it. Without action knowledge has no value. What good is having the knowledge a bridge it out, seeing warning signs that the bridge is out, and watching others suffer from the bridge being out if it does not cause you to act? Your fate will be the same as all the others who had knowledge but did not act. Only those who act will be blessed. How much action/work are putting forth in the Lord? How much of yourself are you giving? We must fight the other half of the battle. That other half is the life we have been blessed by God to live on this earth.  Go work in Christ t...