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Distractions

Building requires a focused attitude. To build, whether to restore or to see something new established requires that one to be focused. To build the future we desire we must be obsessed with our present day goals. Your today is a result of choices you made yesterday. It follows that today will affect tomorrow. We have a responsibility to making sure that for 2010 to be a great year you and I need to build right.

Yesterday I encouraged that we build using the Word of God. Let the Word be the foundation for everything. The world is still in existence as God spoke it into being. Building on the Word gives Eternal backing!! Many of our ideas fail because they did not have the right foundation.


As you go through life one discovers that there are many distractions that seek to slow us down. One distraction in life is people who are not walking with your vision. Hear me, anyone who is not for your vision for marriage, health, career, ministry, work, business, or goal is not a friend but a distraction. No matter how much they make you laugh. Am not saying that we should be surrounded by yes men. No what am saying is that you should be careful that the people around you have bought into the vision of your life before you listen to their criticism. In fact, distraction is a polite word. The best description is such people they are a hurdle to go over or circumvent around.

Prepare yourself that in this journey of life in 2010 you will not allow any form of distractions to avert your course of life. Don't allow any relative of distraction be it procrastination or busyness take you from being a student of the Word in your pursuit of wisdom. Nehemiah did not allow the words of the detractors distract him from the heavenly vision.

The best way of beating distraction is being focused. Maintain your focus to enter into the place of your domain. Focus in your acquisition of knowledge. Focus in your pursuit of wisdom. Focus in your maintaining courage in the face of adverse circumstances. Focus on the goal at hand, to be a student of the Word.

May 2010 be a year that you are focused on fulfilling your purpose.

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