{"id":1698,"date":"2025-11-17T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:37:14","slug":"stay-focused-on-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Stay Focused on Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus is our standard. Jesus is our marking scheme. He rules in the affairs of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. \u201cSave me, Lord!\u201d he shouted. (Matthew 14:30, NLT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter took his eyes off of the Lord, put them on the storm, and disrupted the miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believer, please hear me &#8211; and preachers especially. If in this hour we take the focus off of Jesus, we will sink. Our futures will sink. Our ministries will sink. We will sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t allow the winds and waves of chaos to steal your focus. Jesus must remain your focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jesus remains your focus, several things happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scripture commands every believer in the Christian race to be \u201cLooking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.\u201d (Heb. 12:2 NKJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remain blessed and focused.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34c07376ef1a83610f391fa304da3f48d1495d84de339148a241f633fcd326cf?s=48&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34c07376ef1a83610f391fa304da3f48d1495d84de339148a241f633fcd326cf?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' \/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Rev. Timothy Afful<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is our standard. Jesus is our marking scheme. He rules in the affairs of men. But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. \u201cSave me, Lord!\u201d he shouted. (Matthew 14:30, NLT) Peter took his eyes off of the Lord, put them on the storm, and disrupted the miracle. Believer, please hear me &#8211; and preachers especially. If in this hour we take the focus off of Jesus, we will sink. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makaya-makaya","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.foursquaregh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}