Welcome to FOCUS. I’m so glad that you are here right now. Even on our best day we must be acutely aware that if our focus veers one single fraction that the enemy of our soul can lure us off track.
1 Peter 5:7-9 (NIV) 7Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
This web site is being developed to assist in making you aware that your focus is vital to your existence. My personal focus is on Jesus Christ and I seek the Lord with all that I am and all that He’s made me to be. I pray for all daily and it is my heart that this Scripture comes to pass for each and every reader that partakes of all that the Lord has inspired within:
“I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.” Job 29:17
You were not created to live a defeated life, subject to the enemy of your soul desires for your life. You were created to live a Victorious life in Jesus Christ.
You must realize though that what you focus on at any given time is what you walk through. Be it for your good or your destruction. I’m here to help you and if you are willing to, you will leave today with new knowledge about the weapon of focus that God Himself created for you.
First and foremost there is a focal order. Our focus must be singular. As you are reading this for instance, your focus is on the printed word on this page, if the phone rings and you are distracted then your focus has changed.
What are you focusing on right now? In your life? Give this some thought each and every day. Make a list of things that you focus on each and every day and see if your focus lines up with God’s Word.
The Word of God states in Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
Throughout each and every day we can Seek the Kingdom of God first and His righteousness. This comes from changing our focus from the world to the Kingdom. Taking each and every thought captive and making sure that our thoughts line up with the Word of God.
Matthew 6:32-34 (King James Version)
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The definition of seek in the English and Hebrew are:
Main Entry: seek transitive verb1: to resort to : go to2 a: to go in search of : look for b: to try to discover3: to ask for : request <seeks advice>4: to try to acquire or gain : aim at <seek fame>5: to make an attempt : try —used with to and an infinitive <governments…seek to keep the bulk of their people contented — D. M. Potter>intransitive verb1: to make a search or inquiry2 a: to be sought b: to be lacking <in critical judgment…they were sadly to seek — Times Literary Supplement>
— seek·er noun
Seek definitions in Hebrew
1156 b`a’ beh-aw’ (Aramaic) or b ah (Aramaic) {beh-aw’}; corresponding to 1158; to seek or ask:–ask, desire, make (petition), pray, request, seek.
1158 ba`ah baw-aw’ a primitive root; to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask:–cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
1239 baqar baw-kar a primitive root; properly, to plough, or (generally) break forth, i.e. (figuratively) to inspect, admire, care for, consider:–(make) inquire (-ry), (make) search, seek out.
1243 baqqarah bak-kaw-raw’ intensive from 1239; a looking after:–seek out.
1245 baqash baw-kash’ a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:–ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
To desire, to seek out, to strive for, to ask, to plough, to break forth, to inspect, to admire, to care for, consider, beseech, enquire, make inquisition, procure, to gush over, pray, request, make petition, ask, to acquire or gain to contend for.
Wow! are you seeking the kingdom of God first? Are you seeking God, striving for His attention, asking for Him, breaking forth to seek Him, inspecting Him, admiring Him, caring for Him, considering Him, beseeching Him, inquiring Him, Making inquisition of Him, procuring Him, Gushing over Him, praying to Him, requesting Him, making petition to Him, asking Him, acquiring Him, gaining Him and contenting for Him? Are you?
If you are then your focus is fine and you need to continue. If not then you need to read on.
Did you know that God created the children’s game Hide and Seek? He created all things and by His hands all things were created.(Rev 4:11) All witty inventions were created by God all things. Yes, some things have been perverted by the devil but God created all things for good and for His pleasure. And yes, He plays Hide and Seek with us.
Abba Father wants you to seek Him diligently (Heb 11:6) and He wants you to find Him (Isaiah 55:6) He truly wants to be found just as we truly want to be found by Him. The way to find Him is to seek Him and to focus on Him and to keep our eyes focused upon Him and when you feel that He is far away, all you have to do is seek Him, just as a child would seek their father who is hiding behind the couch with his foot sticking out because he wants for his little one to find him.
Father God is always there for us, all we need to do is to seek Him. The way that we keep that closeness is to focus upon Him.
Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
In Isaiah 55:6 the word of God states that we must seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. He is near right now and we must find Him first every single day. The definition of find is: Definition of find:
| 1. | to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street. |
| 2. | to locate, attain, or obtain by search or effort: to find an apartment; to find happiness. |
| 3. | to locate or recover (something lost or misplaced): I can’t find my blue socks. |
| 4. | to discover or perceive after consideration: to find something to be true. |
| 5. | to gain or regain the use of: His anger finally helped him find his tongue. |
| 6. | to ascertain by study or calculation: to find the sum of several numbers. |
| 7. | to feel or perceive: He finds it so. |
| 8. | to become aware of, or discover (oneself), as being in a condition or location: After a long illness, he found himself well again. She woke to find herself at home. |
| 9. | to discover: Columbus found America in 1492. |
Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
You do realize that He is not always going to allow us to find Him and focus on Him. We must allocate our time to focus on Him.
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Zephaniah 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.
Proverbs 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Hosea 5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
John 7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
John 7:36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
The Bible further tells us that in that day: Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
I have decided to have single focus and find God now. I don’t want to waste my time and see this day in Revelation 9:6 from the other side of humanity. I want to seek and find God!
Definition of focus:
| 1. | a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts. |
| 2. | Physics. a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation, meet after being refracted or reflected. |
| 3. | Optics.
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| 4. | Geometry. (of a conic section) a point having the property that the distances from any point on a curve to it and to a fixed line have a constant ratio for all points on the curve. |
| 5. | Geology. the point of origin of an earthquake. |
| 6. | Pathology. the primary center from which a disease develops or in which it localizes. |
–verb (used with object)
| 7. | to bring to a focus or into focus: to focus the lens of a camera. |
| 8. | to concentrate: to focus one’s thoughts. |
–verb (used without object)
| 9. | to become focused. |
The word focus means: a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity – God should be our central point, of attraction, attention and activity.
The word focus means: Physics. a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation, meet after being refracted or reflected. God created the light, He is the light.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Optics.
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Psalm 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death
Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.;
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Geometry, Geology, Pathology – God created the earth in its geometrical, geological and pathological form in the beginning, this was His focus.
- Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The word focus means to bring to a focus or into focus, we are God’s focus He created all things including us so that we could have fellowship with Him. He created our eyes to see clearly and to have the ability to focus on Him first, to seek His ways which are perfect and to abide in Him.
What happens is that we allow our carnal flesh:
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. to rule and we are subject to every destruction that comes our way when our focus veers from God.
Definition of veer:
| 1. | to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road. |
| 2. | (of the wind)
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–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to alter the direction or course of; turn. |
| 4. | Nautical. to turn (a vessel) away from the wind; wear. |
–noun
| 5. | a change of direction, position, course, etc.: a sudden veer in a different direction. |
When our focus is directly on God we find Him when we seek Him with all of our heart, by definition the word find means to come upon by chance. When we come to know God we come to Him not knowing all about Him, knowing that He is. God is there even when we are not looking for Him, He is omnipresent, omnipotent.
The word find means to locate, attain, or obtain by search or effort, to locate or recover (something lost or misplaced). In the garden of Eden our relationship and fellowship with God was lost and broken. Through the blood of Jesus Christ we can find Him and fellowship with Him.
The word find means to discover or perceive after consideration. As we focus on God first we can discover all of His attributes and consider all of His marvelous works.
The word find means to gain or regain the use of, through the blood of Jesus Christ we regain the use of our access to God.
The word find means to ascertain by study or calculation. We have the ability to ascertain by study and learn to add or calculate the Kingdom of God way!
The word find means to feel or perceive, to become aware of. We can perceive (focus), become aware of God’s working in our lives.
The word find means to or discover (oneself), as being in a condition or location, to discover. As we focus on God we can discover ourselves, looking through our Creator’s eyes and know, truly know the purpose for which He created us. Psalm 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
To change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another. God’s word say this:
1 Kings 9:6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Proverbs 4:14-16 (KJV) 14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Don’t veer, turn, don’t allow your focus to veer from the well lit path of Father God.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJV) 3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Dear LORD – We come to You today and take our seat in heavenly places in Christ Jesus – Lord please open our eyes to see You, Your way, Seek You first, see from Your perspective. We are trusting that You will indeed add all things to us – everything that we truly need to continue to seek Your Kingdom First. Daily at all times check our focus and make sure that we are focusing on Your Kingdom. LORD – Bless us as we walk on Your well lit path for our lives. Reveal Yourself to us each and every day in Jesus name we pray. Amen
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