Keep your eyes on God's power line

Keep the power line to God open with your eyes focused on Him.

Greetings:
In Thursday's message we learned about the importance of prayer and the ability to simply communicate or talk with God.
It is widely acknowledged that the Lord's Prayer is the model prayer left for us by Jesus. We can read about it in Matthew 6:9-13.
We also find a powerful prayer in 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 (NIV) as King Jehoshaphat prays for deliverance.
He was faced by an overwhelming force of enemies bent on his destruction, and the king called out to God with a prayer that acknowledges his own powerlessness, and he asks God to intervene.
His closing statement “We don’t know what to do, so we’re looking to you” could be the motto of any Christian faced with challenges or tough decisions.
“Jehoshaphat stood in front of his people and said, “Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.  Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,  ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’
“But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.
See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance. Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
How many times have we been in the midst of a life storm and started out with our focus on Jesus but got distracted by what was going on around us?
Everything the devil does in our lives is to get us to take our eyes off Jesus. Every bill, every irritation in your marriage, and every pain in your body is designed to prevent you from walking in the fullness of God's deliverance, healing, and prosperity.
Taking our eyes off Jesus is the most dangerous thing we could ever do.. We can let past hurts, troubles, and disappointments distract us from the ultimate prize, which is Christ alone.
Keeping our eyes upon Jesus is rarely an easy thing.
Our old, fleshly natures conspire against any attempt to remain faithful to God. We can forget that our reward is Christ Himself and wander off into the vain pursuit of other things. We can allow the cares of this world to push us away from the Lord instead of looking to Him in the midst of our pain and difficulties.
Being in a relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important part of our life. In Him is everything we will ever need to be successful and overcome any challenges we go through. We must remain established in the fact that Christ is within us, and because of that, we are empowered to get results. We keep our eyes focused on Him by meditating on the Word of God and declaring what God says in the face of adverse circumstance to be the truth.
We are over-comers if we keep our eyes focused on God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

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