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The five minute Bible study: The enemy wants our attention · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Hello and welcome back to my podcast spending
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  time with dr. Christina We're in season 7 episode
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  3 of the five -minute Bible study and tonight
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  we're talking about how the enemy wants our attention
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  You know so many times there are Distractions
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  when we feel like we're most focused on getting
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  a particular goal done. Maybe we're working on
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  personal goals like going to school or taking
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  new training or even remodeling our homes. Or
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  maybe it's something else. Maybe it's something
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  in the workplace where someone is constantly
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  bringing gossip to you or telling you about negative
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  things that are going on. these are all distractions
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  and for the most part they are from the enemy
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  because he wants to break our focus take us off
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  the path that we're on for the kingdom so let's
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  talk about that for a little while tonight in
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  the five minutes that we have and talk about
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  how we can stop the enemy from stealing our time
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  stealing our focus and stealing our dreams most
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  of all So, for starters, let's begin with scripture.
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  The Bible tells us in first Peter 5 8 be sober
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  be diligent because your adversary the devil
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  as a wrong lying walketh about seeking whom he
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  may devour So the enemy is always walking around
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  Looking to whom he's gonna devour whom he's gonna
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  consume whom he's gonna destroy That is his mission
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  to come against the people of God But when we
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  stand ready as the Bible says sober ready and
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  diligent we can defeat the enemy so a lot of
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  times in life we will have setbacks this is going
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  to happen maybe it's a mistake or things that
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  we're doing ourselves but when we actually step
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  back and look at other types of setbacks, say
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  distractions that are coming against us. Maybe
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  it's in your workplace. Maybe there is a co -worker
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  that has it out for you, right? And we know it's
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  not the co -worker. We know it's that spirit
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  working behind the scene to use them. Or maybe
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  it's a troublesome boss or a trouble neighbor,
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  you know If we take it out of that scope of the
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  workplace, but whomever it is they are a distraction
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  to you Why are they a distraction because you're
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  thinking about it. You're going down that rabbit
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  hole with your thought life You're even acting
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  on it letting it consume you and this is what
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  the enemy wants he wants you to be in a place
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  of distraction, a place of unforgiveness, a place
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  of, say, getting retribution about others. But
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  this is not God's way. He always wants us to
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  take the higher road, to let our thoughts be
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  higher, to meditate on His Word day and night.
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  As the bible tells us in the first book of joshua
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  because when you know the word of god You can
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  defeat the enemy at its onset And you know the
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  enemy is very subtle. He'll use people close
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  to you He'll use people that you have befriended
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  that you may be fond of and it kind of comes
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  in innocently But at the end of the day, if you're
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  walking with the Lord, you can identify it. You
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  can know that this is not of God. God does not
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  want me to think about these things. Why? Because
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  you go back to the Word. He says, be quick to
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  forgive. Jesus also tells us that there are going
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  to be many offenses in this lifetime. So we can't
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  afford to be stuck in a place And this is even
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  mentally or physically stuck where we are looking
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  to get a type of retribution or understand what
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  the enemy is doing against us No, we must do
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  what the word of god tells us to do to keep on
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  going To leave those things behind to pursue
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  the mark and the high calling in christ jesus
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  And it doesn't matter what your path is for the
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  kingdom of god Maybe your call to five -fold
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  ministry and maybe you're not Doesn't matter
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  because the Lord Almighty wants a relationship
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  with you But most of all he wants you to be of
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  sound mind Why because the Bible says so God
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  gives us power love and a sound mind You don't
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  have place in your life for distractions You
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  don't have place for the enemy in your life You
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  put him away and you focus on the things of God
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  one scripture that I really love in the Bible
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  tells us think of those things that are good
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  just and praiseworthy those things we should
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  be thinking about so as you go into your week
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  I'm hoping this message is a blessing to you
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  that no distractions will be able to penetrate
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  your life and you will rest in God no matter
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  your circumstances well this is the end of this
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  message for this week and I wish you all a very
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  good week