Maybe you lost your focus. Perhaps you've been going through a very difficult time, and maybe
your life has gotten busier, your heart has gotten burdened, and you have had bad experiences in
life, and your focus has been shifted from the things that matter. God wants to fix your focus.
He wants to restart your perspective. He wants to renew your heart. He wants to restore your soul.
Our God is a God of restoration, and as you are pressing into Jesus, and maybe you lost your
focus somewhere along the way, He wants to reset it and restore it. Now I want to take with you
Book of Acts 7:53-60, and I'm going to read, "And when they heard these things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, Stephen, being full of the Holy Spirit,
gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
and said, 'Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and ran at him with one accord,
and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the
feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying,
'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' And he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord,
do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
I want you to see from the story of Stephen, maybe you are in a similar situation. Now Stephen was
being persecuted for the cause of Jesus. He gave his testimony in front of the religious leaders,
and he was very bold about it. People were cut in the hearts,
and we see something that started to happen is that they started to gnash with their teeth.
They started to really get into a place of anger, but the Bible says, "He, being full of the Spirit,
gazed into heaven." Maybe you are surrounded with problems right now, maybe you are
overloaded with problems. You hear voices coming from the outside.
Maybe you hear demons gnashing their teeth against you, maybe you're experiencing persecution,
maybe you're experiencing retaliation of the enemy against you and it's trying to get your focus.
In order to be full of the Spirit you must be focused on Jesus. Drop this in the chat. In order
to be full of the Spirit, you must be focused on Jesus. Your focus determines what you get full of.
The enemy will start trouble around you. The enemy will use haters, backbiters, backstabbers. He will
use naysayers, he will use your circumstances, with one attempt, to change your focus from Jesus
because if you lose your focus, you begin to leak spiritually. Drop this in the chat. If you
lose your focus, you start leaking. You start losing your joy, you start losing your peace,
you stop being full of the Holy Spirit. You become full of other things.
The enemy is after your focus, and I want you to see the Bible says that Stephen,
he was full of the Spirit, others were full of rage, because he was focused on Jesus.
People yelling, screaming. He's about to lose his life, and right in the middle of hell breaking
loose, he's gazing at Jesus. His eyes are fixed on the Lord. It's almost like he blacks everything
out, blocks everything out in the middle of this trouble. His focus, his gaze is on the Lord,
and He fills him with the Spirit, He fills him with peace. He's able to forgive others.
He's able to pray right in the middle of that, and says, "Lord, receive my spirit.
Lord, I forgive them, don't charge them." And they kill him, but the Bible says,
Stephen fell asleep. I love this because his death wasn't seen as the end. It was seen as a sleep.
That's the presentation of death in the New Testament for Christians. It's not the end of
us. It's just our sleep, and we will be resurrected. We go to be with the Lord.
What I want to share with you today is your focus is more important than your situation.
Let me say that again. Drop this in the chat.
Your focus is more important than your situation. Come on, say this with me again.
Your focus is more important than your situation. I feel like somebody needs to hear that again.
Your focus is more important than your situation. You can blame your situation on your parents,
but one thing you're certainly responsible for and that is for what you give your attention to.
A successful man or a woman is an average man focused. Sun's energy warms the earth, but when
it's focused through a magnifying glass, it starts fire. If you want to start fire, control your
focus. Redirect your focus on Christ. He will fill you with His Spirit, if you give Him your focus.
Don't wait for the problems to end, don't wait for all the problems to be resolved before you change
your focus. Stephen was focused on heaven, when he was going through hell, and you can do the same.
You can do the same. Focus on Christ in the midst of crisis. Focused on God's presence in the midst
of problems. Focus on God in the midst of Goliath. Focus on the Savior in the midst of storm.
Don't lose your focus when those around you lose theirs. Focus on Jesus,
and I believe that during this fast the Lord wants to restore
your focus. He wants to bring back your focus on Him. Maybe you're saying, "I'm fasting so
that God can get rid of the hell that I'm going through. I'm fasting so that God can
change my circumstances." Before God will change your circumstances, He will change your focus.
He will teach you to gaze on heaven, when hell is breaking loose. He will teach you to look to Him
because it's at looking at Him, it's by looking at Him, that He fills you with His Spirit,
and then you can say to the Lord, "Receive my spirit, Lord." You can forgive others,
you can go through life and grow through life. You can achieve what God wants you to achieve,
even if your circumstances do not change, why? Because your focus is on the Lord.
I want you to place your hand upon your heart right now. Actually if you are able to place your
hand upon your eyes, I want to pray for you. I want to pray that the presence of the Holy Spirit
is going to fill your heart today afresh. I want to pray that God will restore and reset
your focus. That you will get your focus back on Him.
That you will once again see the Lord exalted and lifted high.
That you will see Jesus sitting at the right hand of God. That you will get a fresh vision of Jesus.
Before your circumstances, your healing, your deliverance and your
financial breakthrough can happen, ministry growing and blowing up and all of those things,
you must guard your focus. Guard your heart, for out of it come the issues of life, the
Bible says. Protect your being, protect your inner world. And you can do that by choosing right now
to silence every voice and open the eyes of your heart, open your heart to Him, and say, "Jesus,
I want to see You. Jesus, I am so hungry for You. Jesus, I miss you. Jesus, I love You.
Jesus, I want to see You right now. You're more important than anything in my life. You're more
important than my healing. You are more important than my finances. You are more important than my
ministry. Jesus, like Stephen who gazed his eyes at heaven when hell broke loose, I choose to look
to You right now. When my children are not serving you, when my marriage maybe is struggling, when I
hear voices of the enemy barking, yelling, trying to terrorize me. I choose to behold Your beauty.
I choose to seek You. I choose to focus on You right now. Fill me with the Holy Ghost.
Fill me with the Holy Ghost. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Fill me with righteousness. Fill
me with freedom. Fill me with joy. I feel strong and sweet presence of the Holy Spirit on this live
stream right now. Just receive that filling of the Holy Spirit. As He's redirecting your focus,
He's beginning to renew your soul. As He is redirecting your attention,
He's beginning to fill your heart, your life with His presence. Be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit right now.
Precious Jesus, precious Jesus.
May You shine in our eyes, may You be more clear to us, may our hearts see You, may our mind
embrace You. May there be a flame of affection kindled in our being toward You, Jesus.
May we walk worthily of You, fully pleasing You.
Jesus.
I pray for every person that is watching this.
I pray for every person that will be re-watching this. Restore their focus,
renew their attention toward You
from the things of this world, from the busyness of life, the ministry, finances,
conflicts, traumas, dramas, tribulation, persecution, our own mistakes, our own weaknesses,
our own unworthiness. May we see You again. May we see you again, Jesus. We love you, Lord.
And now I pray for those that are sick in their bodies. If you have an illness, pain,
place your hand upon the part of the body where there is pain. Let me pray with you. This Jesus
who wants to have our hearts affection, who wants to fill our hearts with His Spirit.
He's so good. He wants to heal your body right, there and then where you are watching. And
maybe you're walking, working out, maybe you're driving, or maybe you're lying in a hospital bed.
It does not matter what situation you find yourself in, nothing is impossible to the Lord.
And right now our Savior Jesus Christ, through the power of the Spirit, is going to touch you.
He will do His miracles. Whatever the situation you have, place your hand upon the part of the
body where there is pain. Distance is not a barrier. He can heal you and he can touch you.
Lord, in the name of Jesus, heal your people right now. Heal those that are watching who are sick.
In the name of Jesus, be healed right now. In the name of Jesus, be restored right now. I
take authority over every disease, over every sickness. I take authority over every unclean
spirit tormenting your life. I take authority over every unclean spirit tormenting your body,
every demon that has his claws in your health, in Jesus name get out right now. Leave,
in the name of Jesus. I speak God's Word into your body to be healed right now,
to come in alignment with God's original creation for you. Organs that have stopped functioning,
be healed right now. Lord, I ask you for creative miracles for your people. For those
that have problem with different functions in their body that have stopped functioning,
breathe into that area right now by Your precious Holy Spirit. Heal them right now.
Be healed in Jesus name, be restored in your body right now. Thank you Lord.
Somebody drop this in the chat, say, "I receive." If you just receive this prayer,
I want you to by faith begin to exercise your faith. Do something you could not do without pain.
Begin to, if you couldn't walk without pain, just walk right now.
I want you to touch those parts of the body that were hurting and just receive by faith.
Healing happens by faith, healings does not happen by feelings. Now sometimes we feel something
strongly in our body, but a lot of times it's the faith that is activated. When we look to Jesus
we feel faith coming in, because we look to His word and healing happens.
And if you receive that, if you're noticing there's a changes in your body happening already,
let us know in the comments, let us know also by emailing us hungrygen.com/testimony. We
would love to hear your testimony of what God is doing. As we're going to wait for
those testimonies to come in, I believe that healings are happening all around this chat.
I want to invite you as well, for those of you that are a part of our fasting community, or for
those of you that are a part of our live stream right now. If the Lord puts on your heart to sow
into this ministry, I want you to consider doing that and becoming a partner with this ministry.
As you're praying, as you're fasting, consider taking one more step forward and that is giving.
You may say, "Why would I want to do that?" Because the giving is one of those spiritual
muscles that go together with fasting and prayer, that realigns your heart's focus toward the
kingdom of God. Nothing moves your heart like finances. Our ministry, we provide courses,
we provide books. All of that, for many people, free of charge. Thousands of people download those
things every single day on our website because of partners like you. Consider becoming part of my
team, part of this team that reaches the world for the cause of Christ by becoming a monthly partner,
or giving something small or something big. Whatever the Lord leads you to. It will mean so
much to help us put more fuel to this mission of reaching the world for the cause of Christ, amen.