Inspired by . . . focus

 

I'm following along with Good Morning Girls and their 8-week study entitled Intentionally Focused.

Here's a quick overview of the study:

Week One – Intentionally Focused

Week Two – Your Spiritual Life

Week Three – Your Mind

Week Four – Your Marriage

Week Five – Your Friendships

Week Six – Your Children

Week Seven – Your Ministries

Week Eight – Your Health

 

 

 

It's been an amazing study so far – and we're just getting started!

Here's a snapshot of what God's been teaching us. . . .

Week one gave us the foundation of our focus: JESUS

Everything else flows out from who we are in CHRIST.

• We are His children – we should act like Him. (Eph 5:1-16)
• Our time here is limited (Psalm 90)
• Pursue holiness (Heb 12)
• Persevere by faith (Phil 3:12-14)

 

 

Week two focused on our Spiritual Life. We cannot hope to achieve any of the things from week one if our souls are starving and lack living water. We must remain connected to Jesus, the vine, to bear spiritual fruit. Apart from Him we can do nothing.

• Pray (Luke 5:16, Mark 1:35)
• Time with Jesus feeds our soul. He is our bread, light, water, our {protector} shepherd (John 6:35, 8:12, 10:11, 14:6)
• Jesus satisfies (John 4:1-14)
• God's word is necessary for right thinking (Heb 4:12-13)
• God's love is better than life. The only true response is to praise Him (Psalm 63:1-8)

 

 

We can all benefit from a little re focusing. Especially when it comes to our faith. It's easy to be complacent and even apathetic when it comes to God.

 

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.

So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.' (Rev. 3:15-16)

There is a warning here. It is time to re focus and become intentional about the things of God.

The groups for this session are all full, but if you're interested, you can sign up on the Good Morning Girls website to get the study materials for free, and then follow along on their Facebook page!

 

 

Source: all graphics courtesy of GMG

 

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Inspired by . . . a new year

 

"...one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Php 3:13-14 

 

It's that time of year again. After the let down JOYs of Christmas we seem to slip into a thoughtful, sort of half-awake, repose wherein we dissect the past and make new expectations for the future.

I know many of you make new year's resolutions, or choose words to inspire your focus for the upcoming year. Nothing wrong with either - - in fact, I admire you for it!

But for most of my life I've done little of either. I'm more of a 'by the seat of my pants' kind of gal, albeit in a controlled sort of way.  {I'm sensing some not so quiet laughter from some of you out there}  And, although this may sound cliché to some of you, I really do trust God for what's next.

I suppose, though, if your life happen to take a 180 and/or as you get older you're more apt to be thoughtful about the past and more concerned about the future no matter what personality tendencies you had before.

With all those wonderful, inspirational words floating around out there in blogland it shouldn't surprise me that I'm in a debate with myself about choosing one. Did you get that? The debate is more about the choosing of a word, than about the word itself. Why? Because, as I've already explained, this isn't really my sort of thing and I didn't want to do it just because others were doing it.... blah, blah, blah.

So, although I had a word, I had decided not to choose it. 

That is until Good Morning Girls announced the topic of their January study.

 

 

 

There was no escaping it. The word had chosen me.

So now, like many of you, I have a word to help keep me focused in 2014.

My word is: Intentional

 

And, I am going to begin this year by being intentional with all of YOU and invite you to join my Facebook group for the GMG online winter study, Intentionally Focused. If you're interested you can request to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236810263143915/

 

Wishing you all a healthy and JOYfilled

New Year!

 

Blessings,

 

 

 

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