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Staying Focused, Inwards and Outwards for great results

Time and time again, you must have heard the word focus.
Stay Focused is what people tell you all the time, what does it mean to be focused and what is the significance of being focused in a man's life?
 
Man is the scientific, spiritual and psychological outcome of his focus. What a man stays focused on for a very long time is what he transforms into. What a man manifests in his life like fruits that emerge from a blooming tree is the outcome of what he or she has focused on for a long time.
  If a man stays focused on pornographic magazines, pornographic websites, all kinds of junks and jargons plus more and more garbage that quenches the light within, he or she becomes a manifestation of that which he or she has stayed visually, mentally and psychologically fixated on for a very long time.
If a man stays focused on constructive information (such as the type found in God's Words) he becomes a well constructed and developed creature after a long time of fixation.

  There are two factors that brings about the manifestation of what you focus on like fruits from a tree.

1. Visual, Psychological and Mental Fixation:
   A terrible and self destructive addiction like pornography does not only stop at the visual aspect of focus, it also spreads out to the psychological and mental aspect of it thus such immoral images remain in both the conscious and unconscious mind for a long time waiting for opportunities to manifest.
   If on the other hand what you've focused on for a very long time is the Word of God which the book of John chapter 1 calls Christ Jesus himself, over time it will manifest itself and become flesh in your life.

2. The length of time you stay focused on the fixation:
   It takes time to not just become visually fixated on the wrong or right information, but also to meditate (mental replay) on what you've seen or heard until it graduates to the mental and psychological level of fixation. At this level it's a vice or virtue that's ready to manifest.
  When a virtue or vice manifests itself it is said to have become flesh and it becomes something that everyone notices about you.
  Virtues come from staying focused on good information for a very long time. Vices come from staying focused on wrong information for a very long time.

Man has 2 types of focus:
1. The Outward Focus and
2. The Inwards Focus.

1. Outward Focus:
   This is what a man looks at or listens to from the outside of himself. Man by default is likened to a vessel that contains what it has been filled with and what a man gets filled with is the outcome of what he's focused on outside-in.
   The outside-in focus is the first stage of focus, that's why infants exhibit the outcomes of their immediate environment before education, peer pressure and other factors alter that.
  The scriptures recommend that we focus outwardly on Jesus Christ, the author and the finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2)
   What does the term "author and finisher" mean?
It simply means the power to start a good virtue at it's seed stage and continue to nurture it character-wise until it becomes a great virtue (fruit) that brings praises to God.

2. Inwards Focus:
   What you have inside you is already there but it's stirred up by what you focus on outside-in. It starts from outside-in then it manifests from inside out.
   Now inwards focus is more important in critical times than outward focus because there are moments when being caught up in the storms of life can distort what you see when you look outwards.
If you internalize the Word of God and you see a raging storm of confusion whenever you look outwards, what you've internalised already will be the calm and the peace you have in the trying situations or circumstances.
    Confusion is the outcome of focusing on the Word of God and garbage at the same time and knowing what garbage is, garbage should be thrown out of one's mind immediately.
    Pornographic materials, wrong information, bad news, negative opinions of ungodly men or women about godliness or godly people, plus a whole lot of rubbish and nonsense we see in movies, novels, magazines etc are all garbage compared to God's Word. "Throw them out of your mind".
   A virtuous life that causes men to give praises to God and does not cause ungodly men or women to find an opportunity to blaspheme God's name.
  Is the outcome of staying focused on God's Word and God's Word alone. That is the source of true power!

Article written by Apostle Constance C Friday Ani