Fix your focus

Happy Sunday! This morning I want to talk a little bit about fixing your focus. I watched a sermon on  Friday night about fixing you focus and the sermon was given by pastor Steven Furtick. I've heard great things about Furtick, but never actually listened to any of his sermons.

The main idea was how you fix your focus in relationships. From the beginning of the sermon until the end, I was drawn to the entire message.

After listening to the sermon and really thinking about it, my perspective on so many things changed.

There were four focus factors for this sermon.

1. Finding or becoming

- happiness isn't about finding the right person, it's about being the right person.
- the only way you'll find the right people in your life is if you're the right person in your heart

Now this is tough concept is that you have to worry about becoming the right person in your heart before the right person in your heart. It's so easy for so many people to worry about finding the right person for them rather than becoming the right person and then finding the right person. For me I believe that my spending a lot of time becoming the right person resulted in me finding the right person. You have to put in a lot of effort to become who you want to be.

2. Are you focused on then? or now?

- don't worry about tomorrow, its equally important not wishing away today
- talk in the realm of what you know
- is your focus on what is? Or what is not?

I can't stress how important is to not get caught up in worrying about tomorrow and how very important it is to worry about today. Each day has enough troubles of its own.

3. Not - Got

- what kind of tools do you have in your relationship?
- magnify glass
- in the beginning of relationships you magnify all the good things, you'll take for granted a lot of the things that made you fall in love when you get close to someone
- you choose what you magnify
- if you're going to chose to be happy in this season of life, you have to choose what you want to magnify
- what you magnify you get more of

Are you focusing on what is not? Or what you got? What you chose to focus on and magnify is what you are going to get more of. If you spend your time on the things that are not, you are going to waste a lot of time searching for happiness.

- when you are in pain you don't see the person intentions

You chose what your magnify, whatever you have lost, if you choose to magnify it, you're going to live in what you lost. Whatever is being done right now and you want to magnify it you can forget the thousand nice things, because of the one text, that said one thing, that they weren't even thinking about, you will begin to magnify. It is truly amazing how one mistake immediately makes you forget the thousands of nice things you can did someone.

I was upset about certain actions, but I chose not to magnify that. I chose the good things to magnify because that is what I want more of. That is what I need.

When you magnify the things you want to, you will find what you look for. Just like the scripture says: "seek and you will find." That applies to both the good things and bad things.

When you magnify you can really bring out the good things. You can be doing what God called you to do, and you feel overwhelmed and you screw up, but when you magnify all the good things that person has done, you will build them up.

Do you magnify what they're not? Or do you magnify what they've got?

4. Theirs or mine

- if you want to make the world a better place you have to help yourself first
- God says that we can't even effect the people that we love without first loving Him and other people
- God ays that we need to love the Lord with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself
- you cannot do one of those things and not the other
- you cannot treat people well if you don't love God
- Vertical and horizontal
- It's all about our vertical relationship with the living God
- the way that you love your neighbor is the way that you are going to love yourself
- if you haven't received God's acceptance of you, you won't be able to accept anyone else

If you really on someone else to bring you joy you're always going to be miserable. If you are trying to do God's job in fixing somebody else in you, have a focus on what they need to became. There is really no worse strategy for your own personal satisfaction in life then to place that responsibility in someone else's hands.

God has a message for us. He wants us to give Him His job back. He's a good God, He's a good father, he knows what we need. Here is the difference between God and everybody else in your life, not only does he know what you need, he has what you need. He's the only one who has what we need.

ALL WE NEED IS GOD


So I challenge you. What are you magnifying in your life? If you struggle to think of some things. Make a list and write it down. Or if you are in a relationship and there are things that you want to magnify about someone you love or really care about, give them a list of thing that you want to magnify about them.

I hope that you all have an amazing and happy Sunday.