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Put your eyes on Christ,

not on the newspapers, not on the television screens for your hope.

Your hope is in Christ.

He's the one that has made the promise that his kingdom is going to ultimately prevail.

And Jesus is in heaven now where?

He's preparing a place for us, the scripture says.

And Christ is going to come like a flash of lightning.

And for you that know him, it's something to anticipate.

Many of us are so taken up with this world and the pleasures and the sensualities of this world.

That's right.

The money that we make and the lifestyle that we live,

that we don't want to leave this earth.

We hold on as long as we can.

But for all of you,

the world and the lust thereof is going to pass away.

But he that does the will of God shall abide forever.

All right, y'all.

All right, y'all, we're going to get straight into it.

Obviously, you've seen the title.

Today, we're going to focus on keeping our eyes on the Lord.

And I hope you're all doing well and having a blessed week.

And I'm thankful for all of you guys that are praying for me.

I'm praying for you guys as well.

We are always growing and stronger together.

And another thing I wanted to emphasize is that,

like, whenever you watch these videos,

I don't just want you to,

like, think that, oh, I'm getting a word.

I'm just here to check out this video.

But I want you to make a conscious decision to seek Jesus,

to seek Christ above all else.

I want you to watch these videos leaving with a burning desire and a passion for Christ.

At the end of the day,

I'm just a person that God is using to spread his word.

I'm nothing but a tool and an instrument for the kingdom of God.

But you have to make a conscious decision for yourself to be like,

man, I got to seek for God for myself.

I got to have this passion,

this desire to read my word,

to pray, to seek the Lord.

The number one goal is for us to grow beyond the basic,

to grow in our passion,

in our relationship with the Lord.

I'm just here to share what the Lord has taught me and what the Lord has brought me through.

This brings us to what I wanted to talk about today,

which is keeping your eyes on the Lord.

Nowadays, I feel like there is so much distraction in this world

and we get easily influenced and easily distracted by certain things that do not matter.

We are turning our heads,

looking at other things, then focusing on Christ.

So much of life's worries keeps us from getting in the presence of God.

So much of life's struggles keeps us from getting in the presence of God.

And we don't realize that it's so dangerous,

especially in the times that we're living in now.

We are living in times where it is crucial for us to keep our lamps burning.

But a lot of us have been sleeping.

A lot of us have been drifting away.

A lot of us have been distracted by other things that are going on in the world,

that are going on in your life.

Not realizing that Jesus is coming back soon.

Not realizing that the Lord is not coming back for a fake bride.

That the Lord is not coming back for a weak bride.

He's coming back for a bride that is burning with passion for him.

A bride that is burning with zeal for him.

A bride that is burning with holiness for him.

We got to get out of our heads thinking everything revolves around us.

Thinking our problems are too big for God.

Thinking our problems are the end-all be-all of everything that is going on.

We are too distracted by the things of the world.

We are too distracted by the things that are outside.

Things that don't matter.

I've realized whenever my eyes are away from God, my thoughts become unhealthy.

My mind becomes unhealthy.

My perception becomes unhealthy.

First we're going to talk about keeping our eyes on the Lord pertaining to trials

and the struggles and things that we go through in life.

Early on it was very hard for me to keep my eyes on the Lord

because I felt like I always needed to be kind of in control somehow.

So even when trials would come,

I would struggle with letting God fix my problems and trying to figure it out on my own.

I'm a big overthinker and I question a lot.

I question a lot of things in my mind.

So when things would come up,

trials would hit, I would question whether God is there with me.

I would question my circumstance.

I would question my situation because I wasn't really focused on the Lord.

I was focused on my circumstance.

I was focused on the problem by hand instead of focusing on Jesus.

And when stuff like that happens,

you start to see things falling apart,

breaking down, getting worse, and becoming a mess.

And you tend to want to control the outcome.

And this was the problem for me was because I was picking and choosing what things to trust God in.

I was picking and choosing when I would look to God and when I would not look to God.

When in reality, the Lord calls us to look to him in all of our ways.

The Bible says, in all of your ways, acknowledge him.

But I wasn't doing that.

And this could be for you too.

There are things in your life that God is asking full control of.

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And he needs you to be able to look to him at all times.

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He needs you to be able to trust him at all times.

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But that starts with you making a conscious decision that God will be the one you lean on.

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That the Lord will be the one that you place your head on.

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A perfect example of taking your eyes off of Jesus is in Matthew 14,

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where Jesus is walking on water and Peter calls out to him.

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And the reason I love this example so much is not just because of what happened to Peter,

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but it's the interaction that happened between Peter and Jesus.

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Matthew 14, 22, immediately Jesus made the disciples get onto the boat

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and go on ahead of him to the other side while he dismissed the crowd.

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After he dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.

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Later that night he was there alone and the boat was already a considerable distance from the land,

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but fed it by the waves because the wind was against it.

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Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.

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When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified.

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It's a ghost, they said,

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and cried out in fear.

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But Jesus immediately said to them,

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Take courage, it is I, don't be afraid.

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Lord, if it's you, Peter replied,

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tell me to come onto the water.

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Come, he said.

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Then Peter got down out of the boat,

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walked on water, and came towards Jesus.

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But when he saw the wind,

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he was afraid, and beginning to sink,

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cried out, Lord, save me.

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Immediately, Jesus reached out his hand, caught him.

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You of little faith, he said.

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Why did you doubt?

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When they were in fear,

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not knowing who it was,

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Jesus stepped in to reassure them

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that it was him telling them to take courage Peter in faith says Lord

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if it's you ask me to come on the water

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and Peter in faith got down walking towards Jesus it never said he walked

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and started to walk around no no it says walking towards Jesus verse 30

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but when he saw the wind he was afraid

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when he saw the wind when he saw the storm

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when he saw the trials when he saw the circumstance he was afraid

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and he began to sink

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and cried out lord save me lord save me a lot of people take this verse

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and just look at it as peter

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being distracted of the wind obviously we could see that right he took his eyes off of the lord

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and he was distracted by the wind,

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by the circumstance, and he began to sink.

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But I wanna elaborate on something too as well,

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because when he sank, who did he cry out to?

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He cried out to the Lord.

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Yes, the main part is he took his eyes off the Lord and he began to sing But as he fell,

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as he sunk, he also looked at the Lord for help.

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He didn't look at money He didn't look at nobody else on the boat.

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He didn't look at anything else But he looked at Jesus to save him.

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It is important for us to keep our eyes on the Lord Regardless,

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no matter if you fall,

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no matter if you sinned,

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regardless of if you fall Ask the Lord to save you.

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Ask the Lord for his hand.

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Work is not gonna see you money is not gonna save

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your mom is not gonna save your friends are not gonna save you

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when you're in a dire need

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when you have sunk in deep waters who are you going to call who are you going to look to

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if we can't even look to God when we're good

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when we're in a good situation

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when everything is going to what everything's going well we can't even look at God what

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if what happens when we're sinking now you want to call the Lord

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when you're sinking when you're falling now you want to look at God

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and all times let's keep our eyes and focus on the Lord

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and the crazy thing is a lot of people are not gonna want to hear this part

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because they love the world they love to gain for the

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world you would rather me talk about how you can gain

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in this world than an eternal life how you can prosper

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in this world rather than keeping your lips burning for the

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return of Christ Hebrews 12 2 says therefore since we are

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surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us store off everything

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that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the race marked out before us.

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Fixing our eyes on Jesus,

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fixing our eyes on Jesus,

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the pioneer, the perfecter of faith for the joy set before him,

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he endured the cross.

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He endured the cross, scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

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First thing to mention is that Christ died for us to save us,

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to redeem us, to make us blameless in the sight of the Lord.

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That is something we always have to remember.

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That Christ suffered shame.

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Christ endured suffering for us sinners.

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That is one way to keep your eyes on God.

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Always remember what the Lord has done for you.

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Always remembering that God saved you.

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God saved you.

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He saved you.

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Is that a daily reminder for us every single day?

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Is that a daily reminder that,

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man, the Lord has actually saved me.

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I am good now.

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I am sealed with the Holy Spirit.

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Is that a daily reminder for you?

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Because that is one way of remembering and keeping your eyes on Christ.

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But are we constantly reminding ourselves that God has done that for us or not?

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We wake up daily every single day with other things,

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distractions, other things in our minds,

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not even remembering what Christ has done for us.

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And then you grow selfish when God doesn't do anything for you.

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You grow selfish when things don't go your way.

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Forgetting that it is only by grace that we are here.

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It is only by grace that we have the breath of life.

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And I want to read this in Luke 12,

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which is a perfect representation of the watchfulness that God is urging us to have.

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Verse 35, be dressed, ready for service,

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and keep your lamps burning like a servant waiting for their master to return from their wedding banquet,

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so that when he comes and knocks,

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they can immediately open the door for him.

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It will be good for those servants whose master finds him watching when he comes.

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Truly I tell you he would dress himself to serve

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Will have will have them recline at the table and will come

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and wait on them It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready Even

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if he comes in the middle of the night towards daybreak

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But understand this

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if the owner of the house had known at what hour

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the thief was coming He would not have let let his house be broken into.

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You must also be ready because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you don't expect him.

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The Word of God says,

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be dressed and ready for service

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and keep your lamps burning like a servant waiting for the master to return from a wedding banquet.

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Are we dressed and ready,

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waiting on the Lord's return?

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Are we getting in prayer?

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Are we seeking the Lord?

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Are we serving others?

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Are we loving others?

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We love to cry out to God,

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Lord save us, Lord do this for us,

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Lord do this for us.

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But we're not even prioritizing his presence at this moment.

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The Lord is not coming back for a weak bride.

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The Lord is not coming back for a mediocre bride.

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He's coming back for those that will worship him in spirit as the Bible says.

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Those that will be on fire,

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burning for him, a zeal for him.

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Where's that passion that we have for other things?

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Where's that passion?

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Why can't we have that passion for Christ, for the Lord?

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Being watchful in service, burning with the passion and the fire of the Holy Spirit.

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Keeping your eyes on the Lord,

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keeping your eyes on the Lord's return.

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Like I said before, there's so much distraction that it's keeping us away from the things that God needs us to do.

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And we don't realize just how much focusing on our worries

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and on our problems takes us away from the thing that God needs us to focus on.

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1 Peter 5a says, be alert and of sober mind.

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Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

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Resist them, standing firm in faith.

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Distraction is going to be a downfall for a lot of people.

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Not being sober minded, not being attentive,

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not being watchful of the things that are going on.

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Not getting in prayer, not truly seeking God with all of your hearts.

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This should encourage you.

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This should fill you with joy that I get to participate and be ready for the Lord to come back.

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This should encourage, this should invoke such a rejoicing spirit within you.

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That man, the Lord is coming back.

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That I got to be ready.

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I got to be prepared.

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But a lot of us are so indoctrinated with the things of the world.

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We're so captivated by the distractions of the world.

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We're not even realizing what the word of God is saying.

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We're not getting an impressive God.

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We're not getting in our prayer closet and we're realizing,

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man, I don't have the fire for God.

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I don't have that zeal.

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Because you're not submitting yourself in the presence of God.

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Keep your eyes on Christ.

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Keep your eyes watchful.

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Away from Christ is death.

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Away from Christ is death.

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No matter how hard it might be,

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yes, the Lord understands that.

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But he has called us to this.

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He has called us to this.

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So you can't sit there and just whine and just want to be weak.

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No. Give your burdens to Christ.

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The Bible says, come to me,

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all who are weary and broken, heavy-hearted.

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Seek the Lord.

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Look to Christ.

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Don't look anywhere else.

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Look to God.

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I hope this message greatly blessed you.

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Thank you for watching all the way through.

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May the Lord continue to bless you.

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I don't know.

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Continue to pray for you guys with the family.

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Continue to grow the kingdom of God.

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Continue to grow more believers.

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Just continue to stay hungry for the things of the Lord.

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Continue to keep our eyes on the Lord no matter what happens,

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no matter the trials that we're going through.

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Keep your focus and your eyes on the Lord.

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Don't be distracted by the things of the world.

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Your friends might be wanting to do other things.

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Your friends might be wanting to go out here.

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Don't be distracted.

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Yes, you could go out.

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do certain things

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but stay focused once again i hope this message blessed you leave a like comment subscribe

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if you're new be blessed in just name

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