Focus on Jesus

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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May 18, 2012


 *2012-05-18 - FOCUS ON JESUS - Oswald Chambers*

*(From “My Utmost for His Highest”)*

“*Look at the birds of the air ... Consider the lilies of the field” -
Matthew 6:26, 28*

*Living Simply - Yet ­Focused*


 “*Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor
spin” - they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and
the moon - all of these simply are as well - yet what a ministry and
service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God's designed
influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own
conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there is only one
way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and
concentrating on God. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Do not worry about
being of use to others; simply believe on Me.” In other words, pay
attention to the Source, and out of you “will flow rivers of living water”
(John 7:38). We cannot discover the source of our natural life through
common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our
spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, but from
concentrating on our *

*Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if we
will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we will grow
spiritually - just as “the lilies of the field.”*


 *The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with
their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the
sky and “the lilies of the field” - simply and unaffectedly. Those are the
lives that mold and shape us.*


 *If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with
Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every
minute you live - yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your
life, that you are being used of Him.*


 *NOTE**: *On December 7, 2009, Jesus revealed to me the last 5 “Component
Parts” of His “Organic Laser-Telescope” that produces for Him the
“Spiritual Star Wars.” In 1967 He revealed the first 2 component parts:
“The Outlined Interlinear NT” based on the 2 discoveries of Ivan Panin; and
“The City Church concept” with an Eldership in its Gate.


 Now 32 years later He revealed the last 5 parts. The 6th Component Part: “*
Focusing* on Jesus” as brought forth through Oswald Chambers in a special
way - “*My Utmost* for *His Highest*” - and - Personal, passionate devotion
to Jesus! One of the chief things to *focus* on in Jesus - is what God has
made Him for Israel and for the “One New Man” - a *Covenant*! See Isaiah
42:6 - *“I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you
by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a
light for the nations.” *This the Father did for His Son, our Messiah! And
again in Isaiah 49:8 - *Thus says the LORD: “In a time of favor I have
answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and
give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land.”*


 To see Jesus as God's Covenant for Israel and the Church - as the Christ,
the Promised Messiah! as the Son of God; as our Savior through His Finished
Work on Calvary! On the Giver of the Holy Spirit in us and we in Him; as
our Hope in the Coming King - all of these and much more - are what we
ought to *Focus* on in Him at all times! It is only Galatians 2:20
constantly at work in us - we being dead to ourselves and constantly
*alive*in Him by His Spirit - with Him living out His life through us
- only
*this* makes true disciples - makes us well-pleasing to our God!


 And can any one of us do this perfectly? *No*! But we *can be* on the way
- and our hope is that at His coming He will send His angels and gather us
to Himself. *Then* we receive our resurrection bodies like His! Then as
overcomers on the way now - we become *perfected*! *This* is our hope! It
is the *blessed* hope! J.W.Watt


 Could the following be an illustration of this? *The Romney You May Not
Know* - You won't hear this on the evening “news”. This man has Character
with a capital “C”!


 Sometimes, this facet of Romney's personality isn't so subtle. In July
1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital,
had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten
high on ecstasy.


 Three day later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney
took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30
partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay's daughter.
Romney set up a command center at the La Guardia Marriott and hired a
private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a
toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went
through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York,
and asked them to help find his friend's missing daughter. Romney's
accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles,
while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every
shopper. Romney and the other Bain

employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they
could: prostitutes, drug addicts, anyone.


 That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the
girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy
phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD
traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the
basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive
ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another
day.


 Romney's former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter's
life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I'll never forget this to
the day I die.”


 So, here's my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can't help himself. He sees a
problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes
consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn't do it for
self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that just how
he's wired.


 Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old
employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the
firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company
for an annual salary of one dollar.


 When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted
no salary for three years, and wouldn't use an expanse account. He also
accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.



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