Quotes about Focus

In calling me to deny myself, God is freeing me from my bondage to me. Self-focus never leads to happiness, it never produces contentment, and it never results in a satisfied heart.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

If complaint has the power to focus your vision, it can also twist and bend your perception of reality and the God who rules it.

The DNA of sin is selfishness (see 1 Cor. 5:15). Sin turns all of us in on ourselves. It reduces our circle of hopes and concerns to things that touch and involve us. It makes us all focused on and driven by our wants, needs, and feelings. Sin can so fill our eyes with our needs that we become functionally blind to the needs of others. We can be so focused on our interest that we have little interest in the interest of others.

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

If you have the attention of the enemy, you also have the attention of God.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.