2023: Don't get too DISTRACTED and lose Focus!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker. 😊 💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Don't be up on a rooftop somewhere, looking at stuff you have no business looking at and then you fall into sin! How can we ever forget the sin of King David with Bathsheba. King David on a little sabbatical from the rigorous toils of battle, was up on his rooftop one day when he spotted a beautiful woman taking a bath! David was instantly distracted and had to have this woman. He ordered that she be brought to him, and they started to have an adulterous affair, for she was married to Uriah, the Hittite. Not long after, she became pregnant. In order to conceal their affair, David then ordered that Uriah be moved to the front-line of a battle, where he was killed! David, for this moment in history, lost focus! Instead of meditating on his love for God as we see portrayed in the Psalms, the King got distracted by Bathsheba's beauty and ended up falling into sin. And then God pronounced His judgment and their baby died! David repented! But not without such agony and tragedy that transpired because he got distracted and lost focus! There's many things that fight for our attention. We can categorize them as "the cares of life." But if we allow these things to pull our attention away from Jesus, we will end up as wandering lost sheep! Never forget beloved, we have an enemy who prowls around like a roaring lion looking for lost sheep who gets easily distracted! And these distractions comes in the form of the "lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life!" Another tool of Satan's, is to get you to focus on "self" so much to the point that we start to meditate on our hurts, frustrations, pains, and past traumas. This is a huge distraction that can cause depression and anxiety, if you let it!! Once you start focusing on things that troubles you, rather than how you can he