Stay Focused

 
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light” Matt.6:22
Do not be in a hurry to judge people because you do not know where God has taken them from and you do not know where God is taking them. Someone walks up to me and reels out a list of judgments for another person that they insist I must execute. I simply smile at such people and never really say anything. And in my mind I am thinking, I know where this same judgmental person came from. So how can it be him or her that is pulling out the judgmental stick on someone else? But I do not say anything - I just smile. Many times, we write off people that God has tagged as work in progress. Sometimes we even want to put a full stop where God is saying, work to be continued. Do not write off anybody.

The third enemy of exploitation is Distraction. Back in 1941, in the days of Hitler, there was an operation called “Operation Barbarossa”. Hitler had three million solid soldiers that marched into Russia and in the first few months, they had taken 1.5 million Russian soldiers captive and killed many more. They were marching towards Moscow. Joseph Stalin and his aides had already come up with a plan to escape, abandon Moscow and run for their lives. But as they marched towards Moscow, Hitler saw Kiev and was tempted to take Kiev. So Hitler and his men decided to make a quick detour and they encircled Kiev popularly known as the Kiev encirclement. But Kiev deployed the Citadel principle and pushed back. Even though the Nazis defeated and conquered Kiev but by the time they were done, they were depleted and their resources gone. The Russian winter had kicked in so they could no longer take Moscow. Would they have been able to take Moscow? Definitely but Kiev was a costly distraction.

So I pray that God will give your enemy the distraction that they need in Jesus Name. Everyone encroaching on you and on your territory, everyone advancing towards your Moscow, God will give them a distraction that will deplete their resources and incapacitate their forces, in Jesus Name. So while we need to move quickly on opportunities, we have to stay on track. That word “single” emphasized in today’s scriptural reference means healthy [clear, focused]. Identify what is distracting you and get rid of it.

Prayer:  Father, please help me not to write off anyone that You have created and to eliminate distractions on the path to fulfilling my destiny, in Jesus Name.