You’re Not Focused

Coming Into Focus – TD Jakes

• Are you fighting with people you don’t need to be arguing with?
• When you know you’re on a trajectory to go up, you have to move steadily
• Don’t want to go back through what I have already been through
• You stopped striving…. There comes a point where you say I’ve already been there
• Do you have the focus to receive it?
• Everything is there, but it’s out of focus
• Bringing things into order is a sign of maturity
• You have to get things into refocus
• What used to work is now out of focus
• My response to stress = Order and structure
• You might be rejecting something God wants to send in your life
• You cannot have a new blessing and an old order
• Are you organized for what you prayed for?
• Anything something new comes into your life you have to restructure
• You have to structure for where you’re going, not for where you’ve been
• Anytime you take new blessings with old order, you’re going to have chaos
• What do you need to reorder to get new blessings?
• It’s hard to follow someone who doesn’t have focus
• Everything you say can be true but if there’s no focus they won’t know what you’re talking about
• Some people talk with no focus
• You have to have a plan for money
• You will lose things you had because you don’t have focus
• Everything good that comes along is not for you to do
• Sometimes you have to let good things go because there’s no focus
• Discipline to say “no” because it has nothing to do with what you want to do
• No focus VS Wrong focus
• Wrong focus = You should be committed to this, but you’re worried about that. Fighting the wrong battle, putting right efforts in wrong places. You’re eating the fruits today of yesterday’s focus
• Are you spending your energy on someone else’s emotions?
• You date everybody, you flirt with everybody – and end up lonely and empty because your efforts are never focused
• You have to have a plan of where you want to go in your life
• You’re not any further at this age because you’re not focused
• The further I go back, the more I’m out of focus
• The more things change, the more I’m out of focus
• Anytime something moves you have to refocus
• What is your center? You can’t focus on your parameter, focus on your principles
• Once your priorities have your energies, you can handle your parameters
• I am not focused on what that other guy is doing
• The more out of focus I am, the more blurred I become
• For God where is about to take you, you have to put all your focus
• People go where they want to go
• Make it count
• You’re putting too much energy into things that are not profitable
• Distracted by someone else’s behavior
• You can’t spend the rest of your life out of focus
• Do you not know how strong you are when you’re focused? When you are out of focus you are weak
• You have to choose what you let hurt you
• You have too many things on your mind
• When you have too many things pulling at you, you’re not strong
• The greatest resistance comes when you’re near the greatest opportunity – In order to get the greatest opportunity, you need to fight the greatest resistance
• You take the amount of capacity that you can be focused on
• Don’t let your ego drive you out of focus
• Ego won’t let you let things and people go – That person’s love costs too much
• The fire comes where ever the focus is
• You may be praying for things you don’t need
• The problem isn’t how much I’m giving you, it’s how you’re handling what I give you
• If you’re faithful over few things, I’ll make you ruler of many
• You are praying for more when you can’t even manage less
• You need to show God you’re an investment and good stewart over what God has given you
• Can God trust you?
• No matter how much or how little you bless me with, I’ll put you first
• All you have to do is focus
• Sometimes you think you’re scaling down but God saves the best for last
• People love you in your season of miracles, but will they when you’re not?
• The true test of commitment is going through the different stages – Every stage requires a little bit more
• Are we majoring in the minor?
• You’re mad God took away someone He was going to take away anyway?
• The real test is even when I don’t get what I want, and it didn’t happen when I wanted it to happen… You gotta prove your commitment of loving me when you don’t like me
• In order to have a moment with God, you have to pay the price
• You’ve had your moments, where is your mission?