Focused Faith Gets Results (part 2 )

ARE YOU USING YOUR GOD-GIVEN SPIRITUAL BINOCULARS?

Focused faith gets results!  Focus on God’s promises adjusts your spiritual binoculars to see the promises that are for you so that you can experience success, joy and fulfillment in your daily life!

You might be thinking, I did not even realize I have spiritual binoculars to use.  Well, you do!  We are not talking about just any faith, which is vital for success, but faith that focuses on God’s promises.

Faith originated with Jesus.  Hebrews 12:2 refers to Jesus as the Author and Finisher of our faith. “It says that for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross despising the shame, and is sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God!”

His faith was focused on “the end result”—the vision.

Proverbs 29:18 is such a profound Scripture because it describes the results of not having a vision concerning God’s plans and direction in our lives in clear focus.  It says: “Where there is no vision (no redemptive revelation of God) the people perish, but he who keeps the law [the Word] of God, (which includes that of man) is blessed, happy, fortunate and enviable.” Amplified

The actual meaning of vision is to mentally perceive, to contemplate with pleasure and to constantly anticipate something great is going to happen.  Basically, a vision is faith in your mind’s eye like an architect would draw up a blueprint.  He sees the finished product before it is even started!

Hebrews 11:1 refers to faith as something you start with, with a picture or definite focus in mind. “NOW FAITH, is the assurance (the title deed) of the things [we] hope for,

being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].” Amplified

The Bible says your faith, your vision, your dream is like a title deed…a title deed is proof that you own something.

God showed a man in the Old Testament, just like you and me, how important it was for him to focus his attention on the vast number of stars in the sky so that He could show him how focused faith works.

Since the Old Testament is written in the Hebrew language, it will help us understand better the depth of what focus means because it is based on word pictures.  So, the definition of focus is as follows: to concentrate, to think hard and, to adjust like a camera or binoculars, and to get a clear picture!

I particularly like the part where it describes focus as adjusting like a camera or binoculars so that a clearer picture comes up.  Don’t we all need our thought processes and mind imaging adjusted to see a clear path? By getting a clear focused picture with our God-given spiritual binoculars, there is potential to change circumstances, to be more creative and productive.  Just like with binoculars or a camera, we adjust the lens which causes objects that are far away to seem closer enabling us to see a clearer picture of the objects we want to see.