Staying Focused!

Staying focused is a real challenge these days! There are so many things that are working against us and that seek to draw us away from our goal.

When Nehemiah was working on the wall he had to stay focused. He received an invitation to come down from the wall but he refused. He said;

"I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?"

But the distracters were persistent; four times they sent a message urging Nehemiah to come down and meet with them and each time they received the same answer. Nehemiah said "NO" to their request to meet at Ono!

Distractions can come from any direction at any given time but we must stay focused.

We have to make up our minds what our top priority is; we must be determined!

The work of God is a great work! It is a great work to set the captives free, to heal the sick and to minister to the poor.

It is a great work to preach the gospel and to see the lives of men and women changed by the power of God and His Word.

There is opposition to the work of God that He has called us to do.

1 Corinthians 16:9
“A great and effectual door of ministry is opened to me, but there are many adversaries.”

We have an enemy who wants to stop the work of God so he works to hinder us and to discourage us. He wants to prevent us from fulfilling the call of God.

Many times where there is a great door of opportunity in ministry, there is also great opposition.

If Nehemiah had come down from the wall and stopped God’s work he would have never finished; that is the enemy’s goal, to hinder and distort the truth.

We have to stay focused!