{"id":8247,"date":"2019-08-15T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:34:25","slug":"august-2019-faith-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"AUGUST 2019 FAITH MAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

AVOID PATTERNS OF DISTRACTION <\/strong><\/p>\n

Distraction will assault man\u2019s attention to prevent<\/strong> man\u2019s concentration. When distraction takes a position in the life of man, it will be almost impossible for a man to gain or prevail in the course of the endeavor. Distraction is a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, to arrive in the center of God’s divine assignment. Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will deny a man from getting to the expected end in the journey of faith.
\nSamson was a man destined to be a deliverer of his people by the hand of God upon his life. At the time he was to be conceived by his mother God sent an angel that said to his mother,\u00a0\u201cIndeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now, therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.\u201d (Judges 13:3-5)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0After his birth, at a point in his journey of life, he became a victim of distraction from the word of God over his life. Samson was not to reveal the secret which the angel delivered to his mother but he became enticed by his wife (Delilah) and could not focus and maintain the secret (word) of God over his life.
\nSamson was pressed by his wife to reveal the secret of God upon his life to his enemy.\u00a0Judges 16:18-20<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0records the distraction of Samson,\u00a0\u201cWhen Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, \u201cCome up once more, for he has told me all his heart.\u201d So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. And she said, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Samson!\u201d So he awoke from his sleep, and said, \u201cI will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!\u201d But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Samson\u2019s distraction was not his outsider but his wife.
\nWhat or who is your distraction that is set to derail your journey to the center of divine assignment?
\nDuring the challenges of Job, his wife was an agent of distraction with an attempt to set Job away from God\u2019s presence. Bible records Job\u2019s wife’s distraction,\u00a0\u201cThen his wife said to him, \u201cDo you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!\u201d (Job 2:9)<\/em><\/strong>
\nUnlike Samson, Job resisted distraction by responding to his wife\u2019s distracting device,\u00a0\u201cYou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?\u201d (Job 2:10)<\/em><\/strong>
\nAre you avoiding devices of distraction before you?
\nGive attention to deny distraction in your life otherwise, a distraction from the inside (no distraction from outside) will deny your divine assignment as you journey in life. Deny distraction in your life.
\nMany have welcomed Jesus into their hearts as Lord and savior but giving Him due attention is lacking because of distraction.
\nWith Jesus in your heart, you must be living life like Him (behave the word) to avoid an unfruitful life. For anyone who has welcomed and received Jesus into one’s life, there is a need to maintain His presence. Martha is an example of one’s welcoming of Jesus into her house but could not avoid distraction.\u00a0Luke 10:38\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>records,\u00a0\u201cNow it happened as they went that He entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.\u201d
\n<\/em><\/strong>Are you like Martha?
\nHave you welcomed Him into your house by receiving Him?
\nMartha welcomed Jesus into her house,\u00a0\u201cBut Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, \u2018Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.\u2019\u201d (Luke 10:40)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Distraction denied Martha from Jesus’ presence in her house.
\nThere is nothing wrong in serving God but distraction can derail a believer from arriving at God’s divine assignment.
\nMartha welcomed Him into her house but became distracted.
\nWho or what is your distraction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AVOID PATTERNS OF DISTRACTION Distraction will assault man\u2019s attention to prevent man\u2019s concentration. When distraction takes a position in the life of man, it will be almost impossible for a man to gain or prevail in the course of the endeavor. Distraction is a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, … Continue reading AUGUST 2019 FAITH MAIL<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}