10/29/2026
Good morning!
DISTRACTIONS WILL SWIRL WHEN THERE IS A BREAKING OPEN THAT IS HAPPENING. KEEP YOUR GAZE FIXED.
There is a reason the enemy would love to get your eyes off what God is doing.
When something is breaking open, when the heavens are being stirred, when the Church is standing at the threshold of something that requires her full attention, do not be surprised when distractions begin to swirl.
Suddenly, everything wants your attention!
Division begins to creep into places where there should be unity.
The pull toward apathy grows stronger.
Things that never seemed to bother you before suddenly become consuming.
And before we realize what has happened, we have spent more time looking at the distraction than we have looking at the door God has opened before us!
We cannot afford to lose our focus in a season that requires our full attention.
Song of Solomon 2:15 speaks of the little foxes that spoil the vines.
It is not always the massive, obvious things that threaten what is growing.
Sometimes, it is the little things we dismiss, the small offenses we entertain, the unnecessary arguments we engage in, the endless activity that leaves us spiritually exhausted, and the subtle drift back into a place of complacency.
The enemy does not always have to destroy what God is growing if he can simply keep you distracted from tending to it.
Friends, not everything demanding our attention deserves our attention!
Just because something is loud does not mean it is important.
Nehemiah understood this.
When he was rebuilding the wall, his enemies tried to draw him away from the work.
They wanted him to come down and meet with them, but Nehemiah answered in Nehemiah 6:3:
“I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.” (NKJV)
What a response!
He did not abandon the assignment to entertain the opposition.
He understood that what was being built required his attention, and he refused to come down.
There is an open door before the Church, and we cannot afford to spend this season staring at everything trying to pull us away from it.
In Revelation 4:1, John heard a voice saying, “Come up here.” And immediately, he saw an open door in heaven.
The invitation was upward.
His attention had to be directed toward what was being revealed.
There is a danger in becoming so preoccupied with what is happening around us that we lose sight of what God is inviting us into.
We can become so consumed with the noise of the earth that we neglect the voice of the Spirit.
What a tragedy it would be to spend an entire season fighting distractions while neglecting the invitation of God!
There are seasons when the Church must become especially vigilant about where she is directing her attention.
We must be discerning about what we allow into our minds, what we entertain in our conversations, what we feed with our emotions, and what we permit to consume our time.
Because whatever continually captures your gaze will eventually begin to influence your direction.
Hebrews 12:2 tells us to look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Our gaze must be fixed on Him!
When Peter stepped out of the boat, he walked on the water while his attention was fixed on Jesus, but when he began to pay attention to the wind, fear overtook him, and he began to sink! The wind may be blowing, the noise may be increasing, and the distractions may be multiplying, but we do not have to surrender our focus to what is happening around us.
You can remain steady while everything around you is swirling.
Do not let the little foxes spoil what is growing in you.
We cannot spend our lives asking God to open doors and then allow distractions to keep us from walking through them.
We cannot pray for awakening while making peace with spiritual apathy.
We cannot ask for greater sensitivity to the Holy Spirit while continually feeding the noise that dulls our hearing.
The answer to distraction is not simply trying harder to ignore everything around you, it is becoming so anchored in the presence and purposes of God that you recognize what deserves your attention and what does not.
We must recover the discipline of a fixed gaze!
There is too much at stake to live distracted.
There is too much work to be done to keep coming down from the wall.
There is too much ground to cover to spend our days entertaining every little fox.
Keep your hand to the plow, no more backwards glance!
Do not let the noise around you cause you to miss the invitation in front of you!
Turn toward the open door!
Think on these things and give thanks for what the Lord is doing in our midst! Let’s keep our eyes upon Jesus! Have a blessed day.
