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The Source:
Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Proverbs 4:25
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Business Focus: Focus on Vision and Operations
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Today's Message:
Let's get started with four things that it is both easy and destructive to do in business …
1) It's easy to be distracted from the vision God has given you for business by what people are doing.
2) It's easy to become discouraged about what is possible through your business by listening to people who have good intentions, but limited vision.
3) It's easy to get off-track with executing the plans you've established with God because you were diligent in submitting your vision to Him, when you pay attention to what you see happening for others around you.
4) It's a natural human reaction to lose focus when you allow your ego to make you feel that YOU are the beginning and end of having miraculously success in business.
Each of the things I've just described happen when you start to look around at what's going on with the multitude, instead of fixing your gaze straight ahead at what God has shown you.
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Here's the truth about God's Will and your business.
God wants us to follow his Word and look ahead, not side-to-side when doing his Work. I know this is true because it's written in the Word of God.
When you look straight ahead, you can focus on God's promises to you and His truth that all things are possible through Him, including the incredible impact you are working to have through business.
By looking straight ahead, you avoid being taken captive by the philosophy and empty deceit (even if innocent) of what people (whom I like to call them the multitude) are saying, and instead rely on what God has shown you and also the advice of your carefully chosen, prayed-over, wise counsel.
When you focus on your Work and not on what's happening around, you can be confident in knowing God has great plans for you and the impact you've been purposed to have through your Work (which includes business) for the good of His kingdom.
Exercise Your Faith + Flow & Flow.
Fix your gaze directly before you (not on you) and you will clearly see that power to do what you have been created to do in business is through God, who resides inside of you. This should give you a huge sigh of relief in knowing that you can indeed do all things based not on your power but your obedience.
Adopt and integrate God's advice to look straight and ahead and to keep your gaze in front, and you shelter yourself from the harm that comes from looking around.
Set yourself up for success writing down THREE key Bible verses or mantras that you will use all year (and in the years to come) when you feel yourself starting to slip into the evilness of comparing yourself and your Work to others. Use the passages from the Bible contained in this message to find your verses.
