January – Month of Focus

I usually take the whole month of January to take an audit of my life and my role in the Kingdom of God. This year I’m engaged in a 21 day fast (pray for me!). My emphasis is to build a greater focus so I won’t miss anything God has for me this year.  I’m really expecting God to reveal great things this year... you should to!

I’m convinced that for Impact Church and me, this year must be a year of intense focus. To focus is to take the INITIATIVE. It’s having INTENTIONALITY in pursuing the plan and purpose of God in your life.

I love to meditate on focus… Here are some thoughts about focus:

• Focus is not easy to achieve.
• Focus requires fasting.
• Focus requires obedience.
• Focus, in order to be productive, must be static.  It must be constant. It must be unchanging.
• As soon as focus is broken we fail.  We enter into the arena of unfruitfulness and wastefulness.
• You don’t need focus to survive but you will require focus for living.
• Anyone can exist; anyone can survive.  It doesn’t take much effort to take up space but it takes a FOCUS to realize productivity.
• To focus is to have vision.
• To focus is to converge, to come in unity with yourself, others and God.
• To focus is to concentrate.
• To focus is to meditate.
• To focus is to meet, join, unite – be a part of something bigger than yourself.  Stay connected!
• Our focus must be personal and corporate.
• To focus is to come under authority to the very one we are serving…God first and then each other.

So, this year is a year of focus; it’s a year to take the initiative!  Let’s not live for ourselves without direction, rather let’s live for the cause of the vision God has given us!

Hebrews 12:2 –  2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.