Memory Verse
“Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you” (NIV)
“I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.” Zig Ziglar
- Understanding the place of focus in getting hold of your future.
- Knowing how to be focused to achieve a result.
- Understanding the importance of focus in your given assignment.
- Appreciate that it is God’s desire that His children be focused on all they do according to His will.
- Appreciate that it is never too late to regain a previously lost focus.
- Helping believers to appreciate the role of timing in focus.
- What has focus got to do with my future?
- How can a I stay focused on my vision?
- How would I know that I am not focused as expected?
- Is a focused mind in born or is something one can learn?
- How do we deal with distractions?
- What is the role of the word of God in attaining focus in life and ministry?
- How do I get the right balance in the pursuit of focus?
- How do I know the things to focus on?
- What is the role of discipline when we are trying to focus?
- Focus is a key requirement in our Christian journey (Rom 8:5, Luke 9:62).
- Focus is a sign of spiritual growth (1Cor 13:11, 1Thes 5:21).
- The cares and love of this world can affect your focus negatively (2 Tim 4:10, Matt 13:22, 1 Tim 6:10).
- The well-used strategy of the devil is to affect our focus as well as hope deferred makes the heart sick and can affect our focus (Psalm 125:3, Proverbs 13:12, Matthew 6:13).
- It is possible to focus on the right thing at the wrong time. We need wisdom to get the timing right (John 9:4, Matthew 13:28-30, Ecclesiastics 3:1).
- A focused minded person always seeks to improve him/herself (Phi3:12-14).
- Focus leads to success (Jos 1:8).
- Discipline is a key requirement for focus. Focus on the task ahead (Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:62, Genesis 19:26)
- Service should never be at the expense of your relationship with God. Stay focused on your relationship while service (Luke 10:40-42).
- Wherever focus goes, your energy flows towards.
- What you focus on, grows.
- Learn to completely depend on God in everything you are doing. (Ps 121:1-2).
- Let Christ be the center of all you do, he has promised not to forsake you. (Matt 6:33, Heb 13:5).
- Carefully chose friends, partners and/or mentors of like minds (Amos 3:3).
- Eradicate fear and be always courageous (Joshua 1:5-7).
- Lack of focus is a potential source of energy loss and it is always a strategy of the enemy to distract us from being focus- BE WISE!
- Be focused on that plan to save, investment strategy, careers advancement There is a always an optimal timing, lets not miss it due to carelessness and complacency.
- Do not focus on your enemies or challenges but focus on your goals and be deliberate, never despise little steps.