Gods Work Ministry Inspirational and Encouragement E-Mail Dear Friend, The Lord has spoken to my heart to write a message concerning staying focused on the goals that God has placed in each of our hearts. With the troubles that many people are going through these days, they have made it almost routine to give up right away when adversities come instead of staying focused and determined in reaching their goals. I believe the Lord laid this message upon my heart because He wants His children to reexamine themselves and renew their minds to continue on and not lose focus of the goals that are before each of us. (James 1:5-8) (James 1:21-24) We know the devil is a liar and in the end God triumphs in Victory over satan, but right now many Bible believing Christians are living in defeat because they give in to the temptations of the enemy and lose focus of the goal that God has placed in their hearts. In this race of life, we are to be like the horses that are in a great race who have blinders on their eyes so that distractions will have no place in the race that they are in. When we stay determined and steadfast in reaching our goals, the reward will be much greater than any temptation the enemy tried to bring into our life. (John 8:44) (Proverbs 4:25) (Revelation 22:12) This is a good story that shows how we sometimes lose focus and take our eyes off the goal because of some temporary temptation the enemy has brought before us. I hope today's message ministers to your heart to renew your mind with the Word of God and reignite the fire of zeal within you to reach the goals that God has placed in your heart. (Romans 12:1-3) STAY ON COURSE You've been planning for the perfect vacation for six months, and now the day is finally here. The tickets are in your pocket, your bags are packed, and you're driving to the airport. On the way, you pass a favorite restaurant and think about how much you like their food. You turn the car around, go back to the restaurant, walk in, sit down and enjoy a delicious meal. The only trouble is, by the time you finish eating, you've missed your flight and you don't get to take that vacation of a lifetime. Would this ever happen? Of course not. When you're on your way to something you've been working for, planning, and anxiously awaiting, you'd never let a petty distraction throw you off track. Or would you? Unfortunately, it happens every day. Too often, we let the distractions of the moment deny us our most treasured goals. The next time you're tempted by a distraction, keep in mind where you're already headed and how very much you desire to get there. Ask yourself if you would prefer to have the distraction or the goal you've set for yourself. Rather than hopping from one empty distraction to another, focus your effort and attention toward those things which will bring true and lasting fulfillment. By Ralph Marston If you are finding distractions an all too common experience, that means the enemy has been successful in finding the areas of your life that are easily able to be infiltrated. We must wake-up and realize that we have a real enemy that is trying to destroy all of our hopes and dreams by bringing temptations into our life that he has used throughout history. The devil does not have any new tricks, but he does recycle his deception by making his temptations arrive very slowly and subtly. It is important that we rededicate our lives with a fresh fervor to the Lord's will and seek only to please God and not our own fleshly desires. (John 8:44) (John 10:10) (Romans 8:10-16) This message is not one of condemnation, but rather one of encouragement. If you have fallen away and allowed the tricks of the enemy to throw your life off-track, I have good news because the Lord is able cleanse you from all your sins and place your life back on the best road that God has for you. I want you to know and always keep in mind that you have a purpose on this earth. God has a divine will for your life that only you are able to fulfill. If you have fallen away, I encourage you to call upon the name of the Lord and ask God to renew and refresh your life so that it may be useful for His purposes. God is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and create in us a new heart, but there's only one thing holding that back, we must ask for it. (Isaiah 55:6-7) (1 John 1:9) (Ezekiel 36:26-27) Read and meditate on these scriptures: Philippians 3:13-14 �Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.� Hebrews 12:1-3 �Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.� 2 Timothy 4:4-8 �And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.� 1 Corinthians 2:9 �But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.� All scriptures can be found in the King James Version. 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