IT IS EASIER FOR SOME PEOPLE TO FAST FROM FOOD THAN TO FAST FROM TALK IN THESE DAYS OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

WHEN YOU BEGIN TO FUNCTION WITH BRUTAL FOCUS, YOU WILL BE ACCUSED OF PRIDE.

DO YOU WANT TO SET YOUR GENERATION ON FIRE? FOCUS! 

SCATTERED ENERGY IS BANKRUPTCY OF IMPACT.

- Dr Pastor Paul Enenche on "THE STRENGTH OF ASSOCIATION" || International Ministers' Flaming Fire Conference 2024 || Day 4 Morning Session || Glory Dome Abuja || 30th August 2024 || Part B

5.  Elijah's Instruction To Gehazi When He Was Going To Raise The Son Of The Shunammite Woman. 

Focus! quietness! 2 Kings 4:29.

That was an instruction that was meant to deliver power to raise a dead child. Unfortunately, the Vessel carrying the power discharged the power from the Rod, by His hand. But the instruction was clear: "Don't let anybody…" He said: "Greet no man by the way." At the beginning of our ministry, we told our pastors and ministers if some of you remember, that: "You have not been sent into the city as a public relations officer." Church Gist. You remember that? "You have not been sent into the city as a public relations officer, moving from place to place fraternizing aimlessly. Go face the work! Give the work no rest until the work gives you rest. Give it all it takes until it gives you all it contains." You remember that? Because there are those who will come aimlessly and say: "Ah! Pastor! How are you? I just came to greet you. How's life? How's ministry? What is happening? Is there any news in town?" Moving up and down aimlessly. "Greet no man by the way and if any greet you…" 

Now! When you begin to function with brutal focus, you will be accused of pride. That will be a major accusation. My Father in the Lord passed through that and he is passing through that and every… You will hear, they will say: "He's too big, he doesn't talk to anybody; he doesn't relate with anybody." It is not pride, it is a brutality of focus that is meant to deliver your assignment with dignity. "He doesn't come for some meetings." Church Gist. Oh! No!!! It's not pride. "Greet no man by the way and if they greet you answer them." That was too brutal. But if you thought Elisha was too brutal, Jesus gave the same instruction to His disciples in Luke 10. The Master's instructions to the seventies. Luke 10:1-2 and verses 4-6. That is, don't struggle with resources by yourself. That was the kind of brutal focus - Quietness, that they went into the ministry and the seventy returned with joy saying: "Unclean spirits went out in Your name."

6.  The Focus Of Paul, The Apostle. 

Apart from Jesus in the New Testament, there's no other ministry as impactful, that was as impactful, that is as impactful because Paul is still impacting us till tomorrow. Philippians 3:10-16. Church Gist. The meaning is, "I want to catch why God caught me. I want to catch! The reason why God caught me, I want to catch it." 

-Somebody say a loud Amen! Lift your right hand and say: "Father! I receive the grace for focus and quietness. 

Hallelujah! Not every time my wife greets me in the morning she expects a reply and she understands. And when is she not to expect a reply? When I have not finished talking with God and she understands. Not every time you greet me on my way to the altar that I will answer you. "Good morning daddy!" Or "Good morning Sir." It appeared to me as if any slight talk would leak some spiritual force. Church Gist. Leakage! Most crossover nights many many years ago, I will go from 25th December to 31st waiting on the Lord. And the first thing I want to speak is when I handle the microphone. Alone! For 7 days Israel was warned not to talk. They work? Say nothing!! That was a fasting of talk. You know? There are people it is easier for them to fast from food than to fast from talk especially in these days of social media. The phone, the text, the message. Some of the worst devils of some people. 

Look at the Sunlight that you see up there, you will never hear that the Sun was too hot in Los Angeles or in Las Vegas and it burned down a house. No matter how hot the Sun has been, it has not burnt anything. Church Gist. But all you need to do is to carry a magnifying glass in a forest and concentrate and focus the rays on a dry log of wood, you've set a forest on fire by the power of focus. Do you want to set your generation on fire? Focus! Scattered energy is bankruptcy of impact. Do you want to set your generation on fire? There is a dimension of focus you need. There is a dimension of quietness you need. 

Let's look quickly at the power of focus. What power is in focus and stillness? What strength is in there?

1.  The Power Of Concentrated Energy And Effort.

Focus concentrates the energy of a man. It concentrates the effort of a man. That was the Jericho Wall mystery. Church Gist. Joshua 6:20. It's the power of concentrated energy, the power of concentrated effort. That is, deliverance from distributed energy, deliverance from divided energy.