DON’T LET ME EVER BE DISTRACTED, LORD
If I put the Kingdom first, the rest will fall in line.
Let me stay connected to the vine.
Let Your Spirit flow through me in great and mighty streams,
Every day more yielded, Lord, to you.
Don’t let me ever be distracted, Lord
From my walk in the Spirit to the Kingdom of my God.
Don’t let me ever be distracted, Lord, from obedience to You.
Money and what it could buy could keep me from my goal.
Take all love of money from my soul.
Many things would satisfy and make me feel at ease.
Let my whole desire be for You.
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Many fears and cares and woes come from the enemy.
You alone can give me victory.
I rejoice in everything; this is the day You made.
I will spend sweet hours praising You.
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Many sinful pleasures are around to tempt my eye.
This flesh of mine is what I must deny.
Let me look at You, Lord, until You are all I know.
Every moment, stay in touch with You.
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Free me from religious pride. I only know in part.
I won’t allow that leaven in my heart.
Don’t let me be satisfied that I have got it all.
I will always seek for more of You.
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Christian entertainment may seem wonderful, it’s true.
But it does not compare to seeking You.
Forgetting all that went before today, let us move on.
I will spend sweet hours seeking You.
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Projects, and religious forms of men will all decay.
I must wait for You to show the way.
Lord, unless You build the House, it is no use at all.
It’s not for us to force our will on You.
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Theologies and doctrines, Lord, if You are not the source,
Are winds that blow the Saints off of Your course.
I will ask and seek and knock, the Spirit teaches me
Your Word is Life if I will yield to You.
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Lord fill my heart with Fire burning with Your holy zeal.
Let me love the genuine and real.
The dross you wish to skim from, me, Lord, help me let it go.
Take everything that isn’t part of You.
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God has been directing us to keep our eyes off the banks of the River and to stay in the Stream. This comes along with a call to unity of the Body of Christ. What does that mean, and how do we do that? What is God asking us to do and not do? I’ve heard some try to bring this down to a very narrow set of rules, and that is actually the opposite of what God is trying to say. The answer is in Scripture.
What is the key to unity?
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
They shall hear My voice.
What are the banks and what is the River?
The River is the flow and leading of the Holy Spirit, listening to God’s voice and yielding to His Spirit to the point that He does His works through us. The banks are self effort and everything that springs from self-effort.
Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Note that the flesh can counterfeit every one of the gifts of the Spirit. Don’t get the cart before the horse or you will end up in the flesh. Everything good begins by standing in God’s presence and listening to His voice. The moment you start feeling stress, anger, contentiousness, strife, tension, or anything like that, make sure you get back into the presence of the Most High.