The world, the god of this world (satan), and the distractions in it and of it hold the same value that misdirection and sleight of hand to a magician holds to his performance. If he can get his audience to be redirected and focused on something else, it allows him to not only perform his work, but in a matter that keeps the audience members entertained and thrilled with the performance and the time spent watching the show. You see, it’s all a show. It’s a staged performance. That, my friends are what the devil and the powers of darkness use the world and those in it to do to you. They’ve done this for thousands of years…. They are really, really, REALLY good at it.

God placed us here to do His will; that is, if you are His child. If you are one of the wicked and unsaved, you will not spend your life doing His will. No one that goes to Heaven goes there because they were “Good” on the earth during their lifetime. In fact, we will see many that were plain evil on earth when we knew them, up in Heaven with us when we get there because at some point, they surrendered themselves to the Lord, believed in Jesus and the resurrection, and were convicted of their sinful nature and not only did they, from their heart ask for forgiveness, they actually repented of their sinful ways and turned from their wicked ways and lived for Christ alone, and no longer for themselves. THAT is who goes to Heaven.

So today, we’ll focus on 5 ways (there are more, trust God on that one), but these are 5 that worked well for me and other brothers and sisters that I know. They take effort, they take awareness, and they take discipline; then again, doesn’t anything good that is accomplished take those 3 things? Of course – as the saying goes, nothing good comes easy.