{"id":30660,"date":"2026-05-28T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=30660"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:38:40","slug":"first-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2026\/05\/28\/first-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"First Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew 6:9-10<\/sup><\/a> \u201cPray like this\u2026 May YOUR Kingdom come soon. May YOUR will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.\u201d (emphasis added).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Matthew 6:33<\/sup><\/a> \u201cBut SEEK FIRST the Kingdom of God<\/u><\/strong> and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.\u201d <\/em>(ESV, emphasis added). How do you know what you are seeking first? Look at how you spend your money and your time; that is how you know what you are seeking first. In other words, how you spend your time and your money tells you the priority of your life. What does that mean in practical terms? Go through your calendar and go through your bank activities, and you will see what is king in your life. It will be evident.<\/p>\n

Luke 9:62<\/sup><\/a> \u201c\u2026Anyone who lets himself be distracted<\/u><\/strong> from the work<\/u><\/strong> I plan<\/u><\/strong> for him is not fit<\/u> for the Kingdom of God<\/em>.\u201d (LB, emphasis added). God has a plan for your life. Are you going to focus on your own plans, or are you going to focus on God’s plans? You have the responsibility not to let yourself be distracted. If you are distracted, it is your fault, not the fault of the distractions. My Pastor, Pastor Eskor Mfon of blessed memory, used to say, \u201cThere is ‘a work’ and there is ‘the work’\u201d. It used to boggle my mind whenever he said it. And it would make me cry to God, \u201cLord, please let my life be preoccupied with ‘the work’ so that I am not just doing ‘a work'”.<\/p>\n

Many people are just doing ‘a work’ for God. You can be a worker in church, and what you are doing is ‘a work’ for God. But you can be a worker and be doing ‘the work’. It is ‘the work’ that gets rewarded. It is ‘the work’ that gets empowered. It is ‘the work’ that provokes the blessings. When you are doing ‘a work’, you get tired, lethargic, and constantly checking the time. But when you are doing ‘the work’, you are energized, having fun, it is your life. You do not even know when time runs out. Are you doing ‘a work’ or are you doing ‘the work’? Guess what? The enemy does not mind us doing ‘a work’, but he does not want us doing ‘the work’.<\/p>\n

The enemy will do everything to distract you from doing \u201cthe work\u201d. But he will fail in the Name of Jesus because you will finish strong. Rick Warren says, \u201cPeople are going to dismiss you when you’re small, criticize you when you grow, and resent you when you succeed. In every situation, live for an audience of one<\/em>.\u201d People who are small think people will accept them when they grow. Instead, they get dismissed. They think, surely, when I grow, they will appreciate me. But they get criticized. They think that when I succeed, people will finally accept me. But they will resent you. The truth is, there is nothing you can do to please people. So, eradicate distractions.<\/p>\n

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Prayer<\/strong>: Father, I ask for the grace to prioritize Your Kingdom and Your will, to live for the audience of You alone, and to eradicate distractions, in the Name of Jesus. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew 6:9-10 \u201cPray like this\u2026 May YOUR Kingdom come soon. May YOUR will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.\u201d (emphasis added).   Matthew 6:33 \u201cBut SEEK FIRST the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.\u201d (ESV, emphasis added).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1010,324,8,1266,405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direction","category-distraction","category-god","category-jesus","category-kingdom","category-kingdom-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30667,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions\/30667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}