Hey thank you for watching the podcast I'm Terri Savelle Foy
and I'm going to talk to you about the five big distractions you must overcome
You know they say that the only reason men fail, is broken focus.
It's going to take extreme focus for you to be successful, for you to go the next level,
for you to achieve the dreams and goals in your heart
But keep in mind, you have an enemy named Satan who will work tirelessly
to distract you and to get you off course.
No matter who you are he does it to every one of us.
So I want to mention the five big distractions that he seems to use on everybody.
Number one is time.
Looking at how much time it's taking for you to achieve your dreams and goals.
You know a lot of times you can look at other people
and think I'm so behind, I have so far to go
look how fast they achieved the next level or they achieve their goals
and look how much time is wasted, how much time I've missed.
I'm already so behind I might as well give up.
He will most definitely use time as a distraction to get you to give up.
You know they say even the snail made the ark
so no matter how long it's taking you to get to the next level
Keep going. Listen to this story.
This was about a guy named James Dyson.
He went through five thousand one hundred and twenty six prototypes
and used fifteen years of his life savings to achieve his dream.
On the five thousand one hundred and twenty seventh prototype
it worked and the Dyson vacuum is now
the best-selling vacuum in the United States.
You know he could have said so much time has gone by
I might as well give up.
Don't ever let time be a distraction, keep going.
Number two is your age.
You know how old are you now?
Do you feel like you've missed your golden opportunities or sometimes
you look at people who could even be half your age and you think
look what they've achieved and look how old I am
I might as well give up on my dreams
So many people I meet at book signings and in conventions and conferences
they'll tell me "you know Terri I'm 40. "
And I'm like are you kidding me?
Do you know how many years you have left?
Look at your age and don't ever let the devil tell you
you're too old or that you're too young to have the dreams that God's put in your heart.
Don't let age be distraction.
You know this is a phrase that I love to share with people,
stop looking at the years you've lost, let's look at the years you've got left.
And let's do something with these years.
In fact in my book on Dream It Pin It Live It,
I address the age factor.
In fact the title is proof that your age does not matter.
Listen to this, at 44, Sam Walton founded Walmart.
At 53, Walt Disney opened up Disneyland.
At 58, Frank Sinatra retired for two years and reignited his career.
At 65, Winston Churchill became Britain's prime minister.
At 69, after 22 years of work, remember we talked about time,
Noah Webster finally came out with the dictionary.
22 years of work and at 69 he went for his dream.
At 77, astronaut John Glenn returned to space on the shuttle discovery mission.
At 78, I love this one, Grandma Moses begins her career as a serious painter.
She's just getting started at 78.
At 79. Ben Franklin invented the bifocal eyeglasses because he probably needed them.
At age 80, Jessica Tandy wins her first Oscar for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.
Don't ever let age be a distraction to stop you from your dreams.
My third point is words.
Words that have been spoken over you.
You know somebody said that words are like loaded pistols they're powerful
and if you allow them to affect your destiny
you're going to miss out on the plan of God for your life.
Don't ever allow someone else's opinion of you stop you from doing what God told you to do.
I always say you know one day you're going to stand before God
and give an account for your life not their life.
So you've got to just say I don't care what people said about me,
I don't care how they define me
I'm gonna do what God's put in my heart to do.
Listen to these couple people I think you'll recognize.
What if they had allowed words to stop them?
There was a guy who sang at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
Well after he sang, the manager of the Opry came up to him and said
you won't be singing here again.
In fact you're better off going to Memphis and driving trucks again.
He said that to Elvis Presley.
I mean you wouldn't even know who that hunka hunka burnin’ love is
if he had allowed those words to stop him from his dreams.
Or listen to this one, this guy was told by movie executives
“you simply do not have what it takes to be a star”.
He's now the third highest-grossing actor of all time, Harrison Ford.
So don't allow what other people say or what other people think
You know when people say "um I just, they think bad about me".
You can't stop people from thinking things about you.
So don't let their thoughts stop you from achieving your dreams.
Do you remember Dr. Daniel Amon had the 18, 40, 60 rule.
He said when you're 18 you kind of worry what everybody thinks about you.
When you're 40 you don't care what anybody thinks about you.
When you're 60 you realize nobody's been thinking about you.
They're too busy thinking about their own life, and their dreams.
So stay focused.
Number four is your past.
You know as soon as you start to get a little hope for your life
And you start to think maybe I can do something with my life
maybe it's not too late, maybe I haven't made too many mistakes
Satan will strategically bring out his folder on you
because you know he's been keeping a file about you
He'll bring that folder out, he'll open it up and he'll remind you
of every stupid thing you've ever done, every mistake you've ever made
I mean he'll bring up the dirty stuff, the yucky stuff the stuff you don't want to talk about.
But that is what he will strategically bring before your mind
and cause you to talk yourself out of the will of God
That's how he works you know Beth Moore says
there's method to his madness
You can count on it, you know the Bible even says Satan comes
immediately to steal the word
so as soon as you turn this podcast off
he's gonna be there going, don't you start getting your hopes up
don't you start thinking that you have you know an amazing plan
because he'll bring the file out
Well that's why the Apostle Paul said
“This one thing I do forgetting those things with are behind and reaching for those things which are ahead”
He said “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus”
You have to take that file and if you can, just rip it up and toss it away.
And just remember God never consults your past to determine your future.
So stay focused.
Number 5 is money.
That is a big one.
Satan will constantly tell you,
“You will never have enough money”
Well let me just tell you nobody has the money when God gives them a dream.
See this vision always comes first, provision comes second.
So don't allow a lack of money to stop you.
You know I heard someone saying and they've put it on Instagram little quotes that
“God is not checking your bank account, he's checking your faith.”
He wants to see your faith in action.
That you're saying, Lord I don't know how this dream is going to happen
But I trust you.
I may not have the finances, but I definitely have the faith.
So I want you to hang on to that.
You have to stay focused like never before
and if you identify with any of those five distractions then now you know it's a distraction
It's not coincidental, it's Satan at work to get you off course.
You know I read where Bill Gates, Bill Gates senior and Warren Buffett
were having dinner one night in Seattle
Well keep in mind this is two of the top five wealthiest people in the world
are sitting at a table having dinner
So somebody walked up to them and they said you know I couldn't help but notice
that these wealthy men are sitting here, can you just tell me
what you find the most important skill is for success?
They said all three of those wealthy men turned and simultaneously said
the same word, focus
They said with focus you can do anything without it you can't do anything.
So I'm challenging you today avoid those top five distractions
and stay focused on what God's telling you to do.
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