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Greetings,
Today I want to address the focus of our lives. What has our attention? What is at the center of who we are and what we do in life? If our attention is upon some created thing, we cannot become who we are created to be. Our attention must be upon our Creator for us to be created as we should be in life. We were created by the word of God and the word of God is what causes us to discover our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. That word is not simply something that God has spoken in the past. It is not the Scripture, but it is fully Scriptural in its substance. The word of God is the voice of God to our hearts. When are spirits are joined to His Spirit, we hear His voice from within. His voice is the voice that creates us and forms us to be who we are meant to be. For this to happen, we must value Him above all others and above all things in life.
We need to put God first to be who we are in all things. God is the only one who brings us out of bondage into our path of destiny. His love is supernatural. He is not limited by anything that is created. When He walks into the room, everything in the room changes. When He enters a space of our life, we find His life in that space. His powerful love leads to His powerful purpose.
Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall have no other gods before Me.”
God brings us out of darkness, and He frees us from anything that imprisons us. He sets us at liberty so we can know the influence of His liberty in our lives. God wants us to be sons and daughters who bring freedom and liberty to our world. This is the testimony of life. We find true freedom and liberty when we see Jesus as the center of every area of our lives.
To put God first, is to put Him at the center of everything. He is at the center of our marriage, our family, our job, our service, and every aspect of our lives. Our attention is not upon God at the beginning of the day and then everything else throughout our day. Our attention is upon God at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of every day. We live for His kingdom and for His will in all things.
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
We are a temple of Holy Spirit and our attention, affection, and motivation in life is from His presence in our lives. As leaders we set an example of living our lives with Jesus in the center of of all things. He is the voice behind us that motivates us by faith in life. His voice is a voice of love and when we live our lives with Jesus in the center, we discover our identity, testimony, and purpose in life. He is the Word that creates us. He is the beginning and the ending of every day.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
When we keep our focus on Jesus, we receive the life and the light that is our light as sons and daughters of God. To do this, we practice being aware of His presence. We talk to Him. We listen to Him. We respond to Him! He is our light and through Him we become a light in the darkness of our world.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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