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  1. Hello there Kwikphilly, it's a pleasure to meet you, and thank you! I was wondering about advice for staying focussed better. Primarily on God, but for other, smaller areas of responsibilities as well. It can be hard for me at times to sit still for very long, and when I do, often times my mind can get distracted.
  2. Yeah! I feel so blessed and thankful for what God has done these past 10 years in my life. What a special day it is. That is very insightful. I can see God working on some of the things that I've at times, tried to bury. Also, most of what I initially learned about living the Christian life was taught to me while I was at the Christian high school. Since leaving I have learned (and am still learning) the spectrum of where Christians fall with certain things like a Bible reading schedule. Some people do devotions bright and early. While I do think that is great, when I first wake up I am usually still half asleep, and if I try to pray for very long at that time, unless I'm moving usually I risk falling back asleep mid-prayer. At the same time, I don't want to give God the "scraps of my day" so I'm trying to find a balance. Thank you so much for sharing! Thank you Willa! I am sorry to hear about your reading disorder, but your perseverance and adaptation speaks to what a faithful servant of Jesus you are! Thank you for your encouraging ideas and words of wisdom! I do find I struggle with legalism at times. Couppy, that is a great idea! That way, I feel the sunshine and breathe the fresh air while still being able to work on it. Typically I try to think of a private, quiet space, but I wonder if that contributes a little to the problem. Thank you! Amen! Thank you BK1110!
  3. Thank you Yowm. I am especially convicted by your words, as I find the words spoken to the church at Ephesus in Revelation so sobering. Thank you Couppy! It is because of other priorities. For example, when I have set specific time aside to do homework, I go to sit down and do it, but I find it difficult to sit still, and want to instead walk around a park. I desire to be a better steward of what God has given me.
  4. Hello there, thank you for taking time out of your day to read my post. A little bit of my testimony to better connect with my current issue... When I was a child, I was abused. When we moved to away from the abuser we found ourselves in a very racist area. I'm Native American Indian, Black and White. At the time I was in 5th grade and began to believe that I was less (and possibly in danger) because I was not 100% white. This lead to me being suicidal and hospitalized at age 11. They put me on so much medication that I got high before I knew what getting high was. After that we moved up North where I further got into intentionally getting high, cutting, and burning myself. I was severely depressed and going in and out of hospitals and such helped connect me with other addicts. Attempting to pull me away from "the wrong crowd" my mom enrolled me in a private school, which is also a Christian school. After some crazy weeks, God had brought me to the point of hearing Him speak directly to me, through His Word being shared, and the words and actions of certain believers around me. He saved me the night of September 27, 2007. Immediately I was filled with the Holy Spirit and was freed from most of my addictions! My life radically changed from that night and I was given such peace and joy that only God could give! God has been so good to me, but I have let different things take my attention off of God. I believe from time to time I get this intense desire for pleasure. Before, that manifested itself in an eating disorder, but God has brought me so far from where I was! God has given me the clarity to see that the root of these intense desires is selfishness. But when the feeling comes on, my thoughts seem to keep wanting to think about it. I have been diagnosed with ADHD, and doing one task for too long can seem very difficult at times. However this feeling has spilled over into when I read the Bible (I find myself reading words instead of absorbing God's truth) prayer, and in other situations where I know what would be the preferred thing (working on homework/cleaning) but it feels like so much of me greatly desires something exciting. I know life is not one excitement to the next. I feel like God warned me that if I'm always trying to chase that excitement, I'm going to miss opportunities He wants me to take. Somewhere along the line I took my focus off of Him, to chase certain immediate excitements (the excitements in and of themselves not sinful, just perhaps not what I needed to be doing at the time). I'm sorry and I really want to keep God as first in my life. I've noticed my heart has been hardened a bit. Would you mind praying that my heart is softened and that I live each day with God first? While the feelings to do something more exciting than what I am supposed to do may come on strong, I believe God is greater. I want to glorify God in every action I take. Thank you, and sorry for the length.
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