Focus
They looked to Him and were radiant. Psalm 34:5 NKJ
I find that it is very easy for me to get disheartened and discouraged with ministry if I look for ‘people support’ rather than looking to please God. When God calls us to do something, no matter what it is, our focus needs to be on how well we are pleasing Him and not on how much support we are getting in what we are doing.
Recently I heard a story about a missionary in South America who had many years of faithful, but unfruitful service. He regularly wrote home to report on the work he was doing but he had no victory stories to tell his supporters. After some years God called this man to stop his ‘works’ and just spend time in prayer and in reading the Bible. He was to do only this for a whole year!
In obedience to God he began to do it but his supporters got upset with him because he was not doing the work as they thought it should be done. As the man remained focussed on God and prayed and soaked himself in God’s word for a whole year, suddenly things began to happen. Breakthrough came, which brought a great revival.
I’m sure it was difficult for this man to continue to obey God. I’m sure that he also felt that he was accomplishing even less than he had been doing before but you see, he was accomplishing something in the realm of the spirit where God works. So often our religious busyness covers a great dryness in our spirit. We are afraid to sit still and be confronted with our own deep need of intimacy with God. To do this takes great courage but we can comfort ourselves with Jesus’ words of affirmation for Mary who sat at His feet while Martha got frazzled in the kitchen and ended up in an angry outburst to Jesus.
In the midst of our lives, whether in big trials or small irritations, if we can stay focussed on God, trusting Him and doing what He tells us to, we can expect to be at peace and have a radiance that comes from the joy of knowing His approval and His support. This is, after all, the most important thing.
Psalm 81:13-14says this, “But oh that my people would listen to me….and walk in my paths. How quickly I would subdue their enemies.”
Yes, sometimes God’s hands are tied, as it were, because we will not take time to listen and obey Him.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me to take time to focus on you every day so that I can learn to walk in your ways and know your blessings on my life. Amen
They looked to Him and were radiant. Psalm 34:5 NKJ
I find that it is very easy for me to get disheartened and discouraged with ministry if I look for ‘people support’ rather than looking to please God. When God calls us to do something, no matter what it is, our focus needs to be on how well we are pleasing Him and not on how much support we are getting in what we are doing.
Recently I heard a story about a missionary in South America who had many years of faithful, but unfruitful service. He regularly wrote home to report on the work he was doing but he had no victory stories to tell his supporters. After some years God called this man to stop his ‘works’ and just spend time in prayer and in reading the Bible. He was to do only this for a whole year!
In obedience to God he began to do it but his supporters got upset with him because he was not doing the work as they thought it should be done. As the man remained focussed on God and prayed and soaked himself in God’s word for a whole year, suddenly things began to happen. Breakthrough came, which brought a great revival.
I’m sure it was difficult for this man to continue to obey God. I’m sure that he also felt that he was accomplishing even less than he had been doing before but you see, he was accomplishing something in the realm of the spirit where God works. So often our religious busyness covers a great dryness in our spirit. We are afraid to sit still and be confronted with our own deep need of intimacy with God. To do this takes great courage but we can comfort ourselves with Jesus’ words of affirmation for Mary who sat at His feet while Martha got frazzled in the kitchen and ended up in an angry outburst to Jesus.
In the midst of our lives, whether in big trials or small irritations, if we can stay focussed on God, trusting Him and doing what He tells us to, we can expect to be at peace and have a radiance that comes from the joy of knowing His approval and His support. This is, after all, the most important thing.
Psalm 81:13-14says this, “But oh that my people would listen to me….and walk in my paths. How quickly I would subdue their enemies.”
Yes, sometimes God’s hands are tied, as it were, because we will not take time to listen and obey Him.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me to take time to focus on you every day so that I can learn to walk in your ways and know your blessings on my life. Amen
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