World over-comers through Christ!
Jesus, our Lord. May the glory of God manifest as you share the light of the glorious gospel today.
 Where is our focus?
Discipline in a Long-Distance Race
1-3Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed, that exhilarating finish in and with God, he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! 
Our focus must be targeted on God’s Word solutions, not the obstacles that keep us from stepping out by faith. Satan’s plan is to attack our faith, because he is afraid we will really “walk by faith in Jesus and the word of the Father. He targets our minds with thoughts of doubt; pictures of failure and feelings of rejection. He needs us to choose these in order for him to keep us out of faith and walking in doubt. Knowing this truth shows us that spending all our energy trying to overcome the challenges and obstacles of this life will totally wear us out. Instead, focus on Father God’s word. We need to focus on Jesus. Spending time with Jesus, marinating and soaking in the Word, will cause us to fall in love with Him, over and over.
Out of love, trust and expectation that the Word of God is true and has self-fulfilling power, we yield everything to Him. Our hearts are free to trustingly obey Him. Our faith is running the race, looking unto Jesus. So, look to Jesus and you’ll develop strong, overcoming faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
In His amazing Love,
Dr. Pat Rush