When my dad turned the operations of Jerry Savelle Ministries International over to me, I thought he had missed God. I was two seconds away from telling him that I didn’t want the position because I was filled with so much shame and guilt from the way I had once lived my life. I thought, 'I don’t deserve this.'
But that morning I went for a walk and saw a vision of myself standing at the foot of the Cross. The Lord showed me that Jesus’ blood had washed all my sins away. Then, in that vision, He handed me a clipboard and said, 'This is an assignment for your life.' He also handed me some keys and said, 'And these are the keys to the kingdom of heaven to fulfill that assignment.'
I believe you have a clipboard that is custom-designed for your life, too. It’s an assignment God has handpicked for you and only you to fulfill during your time on earth.
Second, Satan has a custom-designed assignment for your life, designed to appeal to your greatest weaknesses and vulnerabilities. It’s not haphazard. It’s well-thought-out. There’s a method to his madness and he has a twisted assignment for your life that he wants you to fulfill. This means war.
Finally, you need a custom-designed plan to keep you focused on God’s assignment. If you fail to have a plan for your life, then you’re just planning to fail. God has given you an assignment—a charge to do something. Like the CEO of a company, God has delegated this assignment to you and He’s expecting you to fulfill it during your time on earth (Psalm 39:4). Satan knows your time is limited, and he is doing everything in his power to distract you and get you to lose focus.
F-O-C-U-S
Mike Murdock says, “The only reason men fail is broken focus.” That’s why Satan creates distractions for us—to get us to lose our focus. To help you keep yours, God has given me an acronym based on the word focus: F-O-C-U-S.
Fix Your Fence
The “F” in F-O-C-U-S stands for “Fix your fence.”
I recently read a story about a family who raised miniature horses. Their house was right next to a small, wildlife park. One day they were walking on their property and noticed there was a weak spot in their fence. Some of the slats were down and some of the nails were missing. But they thought, 'Oh, it’s no big deal.'
They had planned to fix the fence when they had extra money, but the money never came. Then one day the wife looked out her kitchen window and a lion from the wildlife park was devouring her favorite miniature horse! He had come right through the weak spot in the fence.
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