Beware of Distraction

Wednesday 27 July
READ: I Kgs. 20: 39-40
MORE LESSON: Matt. 6: 22

Distraction is anything that prevents you from giving full attention to your object of attention. Anything that prevents you from concentrating on your assignment and meeting your target is a distraction. When God gives you an assignment, a vision or a task, it takes refusal to be distracted, a determination to stick at it till you get the desired result.

There is a parable in the Bible of the king's servant whom the king gave a prisoner-of-war to guard with his life. The king warned him that if the prisoner escaped , he would have to pay for it with his life. The Bible says, While the servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared...: 1 Kings 20:40 (NIV). Distractions make you busy here and there at the expense of the assignment God has given you in destiny.

Distractions can occupy a man's day from morning till night as he traverses the whole city, all for him to get home in the night to realise that he can't point to a specific thing that he achieved for the day. This is why it is important to look back moment by moment, day by day and year by year and see whether we achieved our objectives for the moment, or spent time on distractions. If at the end of each day,, you reflect on the day and cannot point to one single thing that has been achieved for that day, that day was wasted. This is the reason you must beware of distractions on your journey of life if you must move forward and not miss your targets and visions.

Distraction makes a man lose focus and makes him miss his mission. . Unproductive and unfruitful lives, unfulfilled and distorted destinies have resulted from distractions. At the direst, it makes him lose his life. In the text, when the prisoner escaped and the prisoner was to be judged, it was decided that it was binding on the guard to lose his life as it was agreed when the prisoner was put in his custody. Distraction can cause a man his life. Take a good inventory of your life today and check everything that is not in direction with your purpose in life and is merely serving as a distraction. It could be a habit, a relationship, a game or sinful pleasure. Whatever is a distraction, destroy it today.

One of the strongest prayers you need in your journey forward in life and eternity is to bind everything sent from the enemy to distract you. Similarly, one of the best decisions you can make is to decide that you will not allow anything to distract you and you will not distract yourself. Go and live a life that is not subject to distractions, in Jesus’ name.

PRAYER/ACTION
* I bind every force of distraction hindering my moving forward, in Jesus’ name.
* I separate myself now from agents of distraction that make a man to lose focus in life.
* In my journey of destiny, I am unmovable and unshakable, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I am appointed today as an ambassador of good news, I shall not give or receive evil news, in the name of Jesus.