02/05/2026
Be careful of what you focus your life on! Your life will follow your focus - make it Jesus.
I remember being drafted as a soldier in the army. During basic training, there were many situations where explosions were going off around me all the time. We'd go out on maneuvers, pass through low-crawl pits (with machine guns firing overhead), learn how to use grenades, practice firing our weapons, and many other things. Over a period of six months'
time in training, I became accustomed to all the noise. It didn't bother me because I knew that we were still in our own country, it was training, and nobody was trying to kill me. So I hardened myself to the noise, and got to the point where the explosions just didn't mean anything.
Then I arrived in Long Bien, Vietnam. We got out of our plane at two in the morning, right in the middle of a mortar attack.
We literally had to low-crawl from the plane to a bunker and hide in it until the attack was over. After we'd been processeda couple of hours later, I remember lying down in a temporary
barracks. My cot was actually bouncing up and down from the explosions. Even though I'd heard many similar noises in basic training, it suddenly dawned on me that this wasn't friendly fire anymore. Somebody out there was shooting rockets at us, and I was close enough to hear the explosions.
As I lay there on that bouncing bunk, I realized, I'm at war!
There's an enemy who is trying to kill me. That really sobered me up.
Gone was my half-hearted listening to instructions. My instructors didn't have to do anything to get my full attention.
When they started the week of training once we arrived—how to adjust to the country, what would be happening, and things like that—I was all ears. The difference was I realized that this
was truly life and death. I recognized that I was now in a battle.
Whether you realize it or not, you are now in a battle.
Remember, Satan is walking about as a roaring lion, "seeking whom he may devour." The devil is trying to destroy your life today. You could become overwhelmed with that and fearful,
hut God is also going about seeking who will respond to Him.
He's trying to get His anointing, power, and blessings into your life. There's no reason to panic and freeze up in fear, because the Lord is infinitely greater than the devil. However, you do need to sober up and realize that we're in a battle. You can't afford the luxury of indulging your negative emotions and getting into the flesh.
I minister to people all the time who desire the results they see in my life, but aren't willing to do what I do. They want to sit and watch "As the Stomach Turns" on television. They watch
R- and X-***ed movies, indulging negative emotions that I would never indulge. I recognize that there is a spiritual battle
going on, and if I ever began to open up and allow such things into my heart and mind, Satan would take advantage of it. So I
live a very restricted life, refraining from many things that other people do. (Ps. 101:3.)
Although many people would like to see blind eyes and deaf ears opened, terminal diseases healed, the dead raised, and financial blessings manifest the way I have (by God's grace),
they're not willing to spend the time yielding to and fellowshipping with the Lord in His Word, prayer, and obedience. They'd rather be out in the world, indulging their flesh and thinking, It's not hurting me to do all of this stuff. It
may not hurt them at that moment, but seeds are being planted.
You can't be tempted with something you don't think. (Heb. 11:15.) If you would quit opening yourself up to envy, strife, division, and all the other negative things our society uses for
"entertainment," Satan wouldn't have these inroads into your life.
- Andrew wommack (The Believers Authority)
- Spiritual Notes
