19 Dec Code Red (Learning to look at what you’re going TO instead of what you’re going through) PART 10
Let’s revisit our key verse from this series:
Psalms 112:7-8: “He shall not be afraid of evil tiding: His heart is fixed, trusting in the
Lord. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire on his enemies.”
Over the past few weeks we have shared “7 Outstanding Outlines to Overcoming
Crisis”:
1. How you respond in a crisis is key (Mark 5:36)
2. What God did for another He can do for you (Acts 10:4)
3. Rehearsing past victories is proof you are unstoppable. (I Sam. 17:34-37)
4. Your feelings are created by your focus (Rom. 8:6)
We then began to share…
“12 Focus Facets”:
1) What gets your attention gets you!
2) Just because it gets your attention doesn’t mean it deserves your attention.
3) All failure is based on broken focus.
4) God gave you your mind to re-size your experience.
5) You can’t always decide what happens to you…but you can decide what is big or
small.
6) You can either magnify God and minimize your problems, or you can magnify the
problem and minimize God.
7) Your mind decides what lives or dies in the garden of your soul.
8) You are the garden for the flowers or the weeds.
9) What you continually mind you will eventually find. (Rom. 8:5-6)
10) Feelings only stay when you feed them.
This week we continue with…
11) You can change your feelings by changing your focus.
My dad went on to be with Jesus about 12 years ago. I ministered at his home going
service. People came up to me afterward and asked how I could do that with such
joy and passion. I told them this: When I would think of me and how my dad’s
departure made me feel…I would start to get sad. When I would think of him and
where he was and WHO he was with…I would start to feel glad, even a little jealous!
I decided to focus on the latter and rather than grieve, I discovered so much joy in
my father’s “departure”!
12) You can change your focus by speaking the Word. (II Cor. 10:5)
Here the Bible tells us, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ.” You cast down imaginations by speaking the Word!
Never try to out-think the devil…out speak him! Speaking the Word…changes your focus
from the problem to the answer!
Now let’s continue with “7 Outstanding Outlines to Overcoming
Crisis”:
5. In crisis…get and give perspective (II Kings 6:16)
In crisis, people either “freak out” or “faith out.” As leaders, one of the first things we
must do is GET perspective. You can’t give what you don’t have.
Please allow me to share with you “5 Principles Pertaining to Perspective”:
1. Praise brings perspective (Ps. 61:2). Here the Bible tells us, “From the end of the
earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I.” Praise “lifts” your spiritual vantage point. Rather than looking up at
your problem you are now looking down on it. It was a baseball bat the devil was
using to intimidate you. Now it’s just a toothpick because of the higher perspective
of praise!
Join us next week as we continue our series…