Day 5: Focus On Jesus

Read Hebrews 12:1-2

How is your fast from your favorite distraction going? Take time today to pray for all those who are fasting this week. Pray for endurance to finish this fast (and 40-day prayer journey) well.

In a conversation with a young new pastor, Dallas Willard quieted the room with, “You’re a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient.” He also said, “What is running your life at any given moment is your soul.” Our soul has a set number of days. Let us decide to spend our days focused on Jesus and serving Him. He will provide for all our needs.

A hymn by Helen H. Lemmel, a blind woman, beautifully captures the importance of seeking Jesus before all things: 

"O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness I see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace."