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Distractions 

Distractions suffocate promises. They always leave you feeling under-developed and use your fears to drive your life and make your decisions for you. Distractions cause a directionless lifestyle; leading you on a journey to nowhere living for temporary pleasures that always dry up faster than they came. The emptiness that consumes someone’s heart because of distractions is paralyzing. When you’re distracted, you limp by in life with the frustration of not producing what you feel natural instincts to do. You’re constantly reminded to survive because if you ever peeled back the curtain of distraction it would involve the weight of risk your lifestyle and heart have not been conditioned to carry. It’s a tragedy being powerful & not knowing it, but it’s devastating being purposed, but driven by distractions. 

Finishers fight off distractions. We notice the impossibilities, the odds, and the distractions, but we refuse to focus on them. 

The Israelites focused too much on giants, the numbers of people & the size of city walls. Eventually, the distractions were all they focused on and it caused them to doubt this could be their God-ordained next step. But 40 years later there was a new generation with 2 men leading them into the same land God promised them 40 years earlier. One of those men was a man named Caleb. Caleb stood with Joshua and said to take the land 40 years earlier when the entire nation was fearful. He was able to serve faithfully for 40 years with a promise lingering in his heart. Kept his heart pure and his passion focused. Yet, God goes on record to admire a special quality about him. Numbers 14:24 says, “because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.” I believe the same is being said about you! The reason you even chose to do a devotional like this says you have to get rid of all the distractions. Stay focused on His promises; face the doubts and fears that cause you to hesitate. No longer will you suffocate under distractions, because a different spirit is inside of you and you have decided to follow Him wholeheartedly.