Focus on What God Is Doing Not the Enemy

That sounds like a no-brainer. We'd all agree with that. But we often don't get to the practical point of walking it out, because we don't understand what that looks like.

God is always working something positive in our lives, and the Enemy is always trying to work something negative. Again a no-brainer that we'd all intellectually agree with. Here's what it looks like in practice.

We decide with our will to focus (ie, put all our energy and attention) on the positive, not the negative. Say our problem is not being able to stop sleeping with our boy/girl friend. That's the negative. We stop beating ourselves up for our sin. What's the opposite? Purity. That's the positive God wants to work in our lives. So we cry out day and night to Him to work purity into our lives. We focus on the positive.

That means letting the negative go when it goes. In the example above, God will answer those prayers, and bring circumstances that take that negative boy/girl friend who doesn't want purity out of our lives. Let them go. Don't hold on to the negative. Now you have a season without distraction where God can work purity into your life. Yay, go God!

Think of the worst problem or character flaw in your life. Then think of the opposite. That's what God wants to do in your life. Agree with Him about it and it'll go much faster.