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“The Twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said, “We apostles should spend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program …select seven men who are …full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will give them this responsibility” Acts 6:2-3

Concentrate your powers! Even the apostles realized that they could not serve food, take care of the widows, and visit the prisons. So they chose to focus on the ministry of the Word and to prayer. What is that one thing? Concentration simply means the power of focusing all one’s attention. When you focus, inevitably you create blindness and that is okay. But a lot of people do not want any blindness. However, the truth remains that you cannot be effective if you are not blind to certain things. You need to focus and when you focus on one thing, you are blind to another thing. You need to be comfortable with that; you cannot be everything to everyone. Focus!

Concentration is a habit that can be developed. Growing up, my favourite actor was Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was an actor and a martial artist. Bruce Lee said “I fear not the man who has practised one thousand kicks once, I fear the man who has practised one kick a thousand times”. This person may not be able to do the dragon kick or the eagle kick but the one kick he can do, he has practised it repeatedly. I dread the man who has practised one kick one thousand times and concentrates on hitting the deadliest spot with the kick. When you see that kind of man coming, your first instinct is to run.  Concentrate your forces!

In the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon the Great’s number one objective was not to kill the enemy forces at once but to control the highest point of the battlefield. So he fought his way though he was losing men on the side but he kept going until he took over the highest point. And from there he defeated the largest forces in Europe. Concentration of powers! As Christians, the mountain you need to climb and be positioned on, is the mountain of prayer. Guess what?

If you position yourself on the altar of God, you will dictate things in life. You will tell things to go and they will go. You will tell things to come and they will come. You have to be deliberate about prayer because you are positioning yourself and taking your place in the spirit realm. Identify your key result area and concentrate all your forces.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to tarry in the place of prayer and be consistently positioned on the altar of God, in Jesus Name.
GFH
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