18 March 2026
Hello everyone, and welcome to your favorite podcast channel, This Gospel. Today, we are going to talk about focus. I want to start by reading a scripture from Joshua 1:6–7 (KJV):
“Be strong and of good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.”
In other words: keep the Word, do the Word, and if you do, you will prosper wherever you go. Your prosperity and advancement are hinged on doing God’s Word.
The Principle of Meditation
How then can you commit God’s Word to your heart so that you live by it intuitively? If God’s Word is the key to prosperity, how can you live by it in all situations without fail? Joshua 1:8 tells us:
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night…”
It is not enough to simply memorize scriptures or keep them in your heart; you must go further. The Hebrew word for meditate is Hagar, which means to mumble under your breath, to ponder, to muse, or to mutter. You are constantly speaking God’s Word to yourself: “I do not deviate from this Word. I keep Your Word. I do Your Word.” By muttering and uttering the Word day and night, you bring yourself into a position to respond exactly as God expects. This is the principle for charting the course of your life so that you win every time.
Strength and Courage through the Spirit
Doing the Word requires strength and courage. That is why God told Joshua twice to be strong and courageous. In our lives today, that boldness comes from the Holy Spirit. Acts 4:31 tells us that they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God with boldness.
You don’t need to pray for God to “make” you strong or bold; those are the wrong prayers. Instead, you must be filled with the Spirit. Being filled is how you stir up His strength and courage within you. You should never have an “off day.” Stay filled by speaking to yourself in hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs, making melody in your heart to the Lord.
Tunnelling Your Vision
We live in a world that trades on fear. To take God’s Word to people who do not understand spiritual things, you need an understanding that only the Holy Spirit provides. You can only action what you understand. As you meditate, the Holy Spirit “broods” over those words and brings revelation to your spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:17–18 tells us:
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Stop putting all your attention on your senses—the things you can see and touch. These things are transient; they will fade away. Discipline yourself to tunnel your vision toward spiritual things.
Remember Joshua and Caleb. They saw the giants in the land, but they didn’t focus on them. They focused on God’s ability. Faith is believing and doing God’s Word. If you walk away from this message and continue doing exactly what you did before, there will be no change. You must decide to change the course of your life.
The Spirit of Faith
Carry the testimonies of your past victories with you. They build your faith and remind you that God never fails. As it is written in 2 Corinthians 4:13: “We having the same spirit of faith… I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.”
When you believe the Word, you speak it: “Greater is He that is in me. My light affliction is but for a moment.” ### The Hallmark of Maturity Finally, you must press. Philippians 3:13–14 says:
“…forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Write your vision down and make it plain. As you pray in tongues and meditate on the Word regarding that vision, God will form a picture in your spirit for your faith to give substance to.
Focus is a hallmark of maturity. It requires you to discipline your body and your mind. If you are ruled by your senses, you will be disqualified. Mature Christians are “thus minded”—they press, they discipline themselves, and they stay consistent. Focus requires consistency.
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