Greetings in The Mighty Name of Jesus, The Christ!!!
Attention Span
Brothers and Sisters we live in a land that we pay more Attention to the Now than Tomorrow and if it does not happen Now then it is Cast Away as though it never was! But see that is a problem that Society has pushed upon us, more clear, it is what Satan and the Heathen have demanded we follow. Jesus whom we serve, does not Follow what Satan or the Heathen want and works on His own Time Scale.
2 Peter 3:8 KJV
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
We must ask a question to ourselves, can My Attention Span be as Jesus is? We Pray, we say we Have Faith but do we really. Let’s look at a few Attention Spans in God’s Word.
Exodus 16:32-35 KJV
"32 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan."
Deuteronomy 1:2-3 KJV
"2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;"
Joshua 5:6 KJV
“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
Can you imagine eating one thing and only one thing for Forty Years or Walking a Eleven mile journey for Forty Years or waiting for Forty Years for the Last Man to die who started a Forty Year journey. Most of us would have given up after the first week! Think about Noah who built an Ark that took somewhere between Seventy Five Years and One Hundred and Twenty Years just to build. In that time going through all the mocker, slander from Unbelievers that a Flood was coming to Kill them all! Or think on the Four Hundred Years of silence waiting for The Messiah to come, Our Lord Jesus!!! Talk about having an Attention Span!!!
You make ask why I call this the Attention Span, because every day, every hour, every minute, every second you had to pay Attention to What God Said. This means that through every disappointment, every mocker, every fight, every anything you had to Keep Your Thoughts ON What God Said! Back in those days you kept Your Mind on The Things That Concerned God, not YOURSELF!!!
We go through a Fast Food place or even sit down Restaurant and WE Expect our food to be served Fast, like we are the only ones being served. If anything takes longer than Five Minutes we begin Wondering in Our Thoughts.
You Must Understand this message has not anything to do with Faith, Belief, Trust, Patients or Memory, it has to do with Our Attention Span. The Attention Span is the Length from First Thought to the End Of That Thought. Do we Keep a hold of that Thought until we see the End or do we Think for a mire second and move on and when it does not come to pass in the Time Frame of Our Attention Span we lose Heart. We start to Re-Translating Our Attention Span into Regret, Disappointment, Sadness all because we did not Get What we wanted When We Wanted it. So you may ask Why is this Important? It is Important because it does Deal with Your Faith In Jesus. Some of you may say “I have Faith, there is nothing wrong with My Faith…”, how Long do Your Thoughts stay Focused on What Jesus has said or What His Word says?
Here are Two sets Scriptures that deal with Our Attention Span…
Romans 12:1-2 KJV
"1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
John 14:15 KJV
“If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Our Attention Span deals with both the Renewing Of Our Minds and Our Love for Jesus. Our Thoughts cannot be that of The Worlds Thoughts, for the Worlds Thoughts are Short, Sporadic, Impulsive, ours must be Forever, Firm and with much Thought before acting. Our Attention Span must be that of Gods, that is, if and again I say IF God said it then IT WILL COME TO PASS and Our Attention Span must be upon that. Too many of you are running around saying that Jesus said this or said that when He has Said Nothing, but it is the Enemy throwing thoughts into you head and YOU Believing it!!! Most have been taught this frame of mind… “…well it did not come to pass, I’ll just cast it away and move on…”, doing this sets up Your Attention Span to Hold Jesus Hostage to Produce what You have said that He said, therefore chips away at Faith… The following Scripture is one of the favorites…
Hebrews 11:1 KJV
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Can YOU pay Attention to those things Hoped For that YOU have Not Seen come to pass, Having Faith that they will. Within Our Attention Span it is in Continues Motion jumping from one thing to another in a blink of an eye, but what is needed is for Us not to be Jumping Around from One Thought to Another but stay Focused on what is Needed, which has No Time Frame.
Look at it in this mind. A man decides to dig a ditch for a mile by hand. Before the ditch even gets started, he brakes his leg, now he’s laid up for weeks. But then he remembers the ditch once his leg heals, so he starts digging. He dig’s from morning until night every day for a month. Then someone in his family close to him passes away, bringing on depression and sadness. Then one day he remembers the ditch and once again begins to dig. He gets the ditch about half way and he is tired, wore out and decides to stop digging. The ditch never gets finished, he never Sees the end. His Attention Span cares no more about Why he started digging the ditch in the first place. Now, let me tell you Why he was digging the ditch in the first place. His neighbor on his right has running water but he and his neighbor on the left do not. The ditch was to bring water to him and his neighbor, but now it will not because He Gave Up changing His Attention Span to other things that were less important. Many, many Born Again, Blood Bought, do the exact same thing with their Thought Processes, which is Their Attention Span.
If Jesus has Said something then we need to pay Attention to it Regardless of the Span Of Time it takes to Receive!!! See the Attention Span will Meditate upon it, Weigh upon it, Focus upon it, not just once, but every day until it comes to Pass, it is the Point of Never Letting Go no matter How Long. The Attention Span is what Keeps Faith alive within us, that our every Thought is upon whatever Jesus said or something that you are Believing for.
Psalm 1:2 KJV
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."
Psalm 77:12 KJV
“I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings."
Psalm 119:15 KJV
“I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways."
Psalm 143:5 KJV
“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands."
1 Timothy 4:15 KJV
“Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."
Our Attention Span Requires a Purposeful Thought In Gods Realm Of Standards. In other words, we must Chose to Think on those things that Please Jesus and Remembering those things that Jesus has Already Done On Your Behalf. This is thinking beyond the Cross, Beyond Salvation.
John 10:10 KJV
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly."
Our Attention Span must be focused on the Scripture above, that Satan and The World are out to harm us in any way they can, but Our Lord Jesus has given us Eternal Life AND will Proved a More Abundant Life in this world. The key word here is Might. If Our Attention Span is based upon the Worlds Standards then Faith will fail, but it Our Attention Span is based upon Jesus AS Lord period, then Faith will come to pass. Now there is the issue of being in Jesus Will. If there is something that is not, then it will not come to pass no matter how long you wait or how ever must Attention you give it.
One more example of Our Attention Span. A Man and Woman meet, like each other, start dating, their Attention Span is Focused on Each Other, rather of pass thoughts or future thought their Attention Span is on the other. This is Different than Faith.
Matthew 6:33 KJV
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
What is YOUR Attention Span Focused ON!!!
Amen and Amen!!!
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