Daily writing prompt

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

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I focus on what makes me happy. (To be unhappy, focus on yourself and your problems.) Things don’t make me happy. Jesus does. The key to happiness is Christ-focus.

If the main attraction
In your daily life
Is continual distraction,
You’ll be spiritually
Out of action,
Lacking interaction
With the living Jesus.

Focusing
On
Christ
Unleashes
Serenity.

If you haven’t
Recently heard
The living Jesus
Speak in your heart
Your vision of Him
Will be blurred.

Every moment that you ignore Jesus you’re missing out on the glorious awareness of His presence! There’s no other focus in life like the living Jesus. Keep your attention locked on Him.

When we aren’t focused on the risen Jesus, life quickly gets off track. If you will forget about yourself and begin to focus on the risen Jesus, you’ll be amazed at what happens in your heart.

Keep your conscious mind focused on the risen Jesus, not on yourself. You don’t get inner peace by focusing on yourself. You get inner peace by continually focusing on the risen Jesus. If you will keep your heart always focused on the living Jesus, you’ll be daily carried along by the reality of His presence.

You can focus on the risen Jesus, or you can ignore Him. The key to happiness is to always focus on Jesus and head in His direction. The more you focus on the living Jesus the more you will be aware of His presence and reality, His power and love. Live your life intensely focused on the risen Jesus.

When your heart is blurry, your mind will deceive you. Let the risen Jesus clear up your inner vision! People who are focused on the risen Jesus have an instant heart-connection when they encounter each other.

Your life will follow your focus. You can’t follow Jesus without continually focusing on Him. No one is perfectly focused on the living Jesus. Daily improve your focus. Seek to make Christ your ongoing locus of control. Develop a laser-like focus on the living Jesus. You’ll never see Him very clearly by candlelight.

Focus directly on the risen Jesus, not on lectures and programs about Him. When people are satisfied with an occasional glimpse of the living Jesus or a weekly religious service, they stray away from the awareness of His presence and live their life like He is far away from them.

Don’t ghost the risen Jesus. Be His daily host. If you leave church and ghost Jesus the rest of the week, you’ve wasted your time.

To focus on the living Jesus:

• Stay in continual open-hearted conversation with Him.
• Quickly and consistently do what He prompts you to do.
• When the attention of your heart slips away from Him, promptly redirect it to His presence.
• When you disobey or ignore Him, immediately get back on track, ask for His forgiveness, and realign with His will.
• Daily read the Bible with your heart wide open to Him.
• Keep Scriptures flowing through your mind.
• Spend a lot of time with and open your heart to people who are intently focused on Him.
• Look for how Jesus is working in every circumstance throughout the day.
• “Consider others better than yourself.”
• Humbly love and serve people.
• See Christ in “the lease of these.”

You have the right to control your focus. Boldly and courageously keep it on Jesus! Focus is about spiritual warfare. Whatever gets your focus wins the battle. Self-focus interrupts Christ-focus. Choose which you will serve. When your focus on the risen Jesus is so intense that others think you’re crazy, you’re headed in the right direction. (Paul the Apostle said, “We are fools for Christ.”)