Keep Your Eyes On the Prize, Not the Challenge

Today’s Scripture: Colossians 1:9-11

⁹For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. ¹⁰And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully.

Today’s Scripture Message:

I had a wonderful experience this Sunday which forced me to place a new perspective on how I focus.  What I hear, how I absorb that which I’ve heard.  Missing important facts because of general distraction when the blessing was truly in the heart of the message and not the various detail.  Our focus as Christians is love, not condition. When we act in love we act humbly respectful of the hearts around us, reaching out to assist and not to receive.  Your attention hears not the word but the heart of the message and places your eyes on things not external, but internal that otherwise would be missed.  If we are beings reflective of the God within us as with our Heavenly Father, our intent is unconditionally loving allowing us to continue to move forward victoriously growing in the knowledge of God and sharing it through our witness and example.

Thought for the Day:

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.  When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.”

- Brenda Ueland

Goal for the Day:

Listen, really hear what is being spoken to you.  No matter what form it is presented, hear the heart behind the message.

Happy 102^nd Day of the New Year!!!

Your Focus Is Always On How You Will Win, Not How to Keep from Losing – There is a Difference – FOCUS ON THE WIN!!!

Many Blessings!!!