Refocusing your Priorities

Re-energizing your life

Part 3
 We lack energy and enthusiasm
because of …
• Lack of vision
• Lack of purpose
• Personal insecurity
• Wrong motivations
• I’m spread too thin
• I’m overworked
• …
Lack of FOCUS
How do we decide
on what is
important?
 Your VALUE SYSTEM
• What are your dreams in life?
• How do you spend your time?
• How do you spend your money?
Jesus said to her, "Martha, Martha,
you are worried and troubled about
many things. Only a few things are
important, even just one. Mary has
chosen the good thing. It will not be
taken away from her."
Luke 10:41,42 (NLV)
1 – we have too many things
in our value system
“…you are worried and troubled
about many things…”
2 – Just a few things are
important
“… Only a few things are
important…”
3 – There is one thing that is the
cornerstone of everything else
“Only a few things are important,
even just one.”
 “But seek (aim at and strive after)
first of all His kingdom and His
righteousness (His way of doing
and being right), and then all
these things taken together will be
given you besides.”
Matt 6.33 (Amp)
How can I change my focus?
You were taught, with regard to your
former way of life, to put off your old
self, which is being corrupted by its
deceitful desires; to be made new in
the attitude of your minds; and to
put on the new self, created to be like
God in true righteousness and
holiness.
Eph 4.22-24 (NIV)
What you should know
to re-focus your life
1 – Know who you are

Practical help: the power of

metaphors
 “I am the bread of life”
John 6:35
“I am the light of the world”
John 8:12
“I am the gate for the sheep”
John 10:7
“I am the good shepherd”
John 10:11
“I am the resurrection and the life"
John 11:25
“I am the way and the truth and the life”
John 14:6
 2 Cor 5.20 - We are therefore Christ's
ambassadors…
 
Eph 6.20 - for which I am an ambassador in chains.
 
2 Cor 3.20 - You yourselves are our letter, written on
our hearts, known and read by everybody.
 
Matt 10.16 - I am sending you out like sheep among
wolves.
 
Matt 5.13 - "You are the salt of the earth…. You are
the light of the world."
 
1 Peter 2.5 - you also, like living stones, are being
built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,
offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through
Jesus Christ.
2 – Know who you are trying
to please
 “I seek not to please myself but
him who sent me.”
John 5:30
“This is my son, whom I love; with
him I am well pleased.”
Matthew 3:17
3 – Know what you are trying
to accomplish
 At daybreak Jesus went out to a
solitary place. The people were looking
for him and when they came to where
he was, they tried to keep him from
leaving them. But he said, “I must
preach the good news of the kingdom
of God to the other towns also,
because that is why I was sent.” And
he kept on preaching in the
synagogues of Judea.
Luke 4:42-44
“Keep looking straight ahead,
without turning aside. Know
where you are headed, and
you will stay on solid ground.”
Prov 4.25-26 (CEV)