Storming The Gates Podcast Episode with Bishop Eugene Taylor

Storming the Gates PODCAST: DISTRACTIONS- SATAN'S STRATEGIC PLAN

• Bishop Eugene Taylor

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What if Satan's most powerful weapon against believers isn't obvious sin, but something far more subtle? In this eye-opening episode, Bishop Eugene Taylor explores how distractions—even seemingly good ones—can derail your spiritual momentum and pull you away from your divine purpose.

Through the biblical accounts of Peter walking on water and Mary sitting at Jesus' feet, Bishop Taylor reveals how easily we lose focus when our attention shifts from Christ to circumstances around us. "Distraction means to draw away," he explains, "from our focus, from our purpose, and from our attention." When we become distracted, everything begins to irritate us, much like Martha who was "worried and upset about many things."

The most dangerous aspect of distractions is their subtlety. Many believers are busy doing good things that aren't necessarily their assignment. "Your grace is in your assignment," Bishop Taylor emphasizes, pointing out that working outside our calling leads to frustration and spiritual ineffectiveness. Sometimes good opportunities become strategic distractions when they pull us off course.

Drawing from Nehemiah's steadfast refusal to leave the wall he was building, Bishop Taylor demonstrates how we must respond to the enemy's invitation to the "plain of Ono" with a firm "Oh no, I'm not going there!" He warns about the dangers of prolonged distraction—missing God's timing and drifting so gradually from our purpose that we hardly notice how far we've wandered.

The solution? "Seek first the kingdom of God" and guard your heart vigilantly. Be careful who has access to your time, mind, and emotions. Learn to say no to things that, while good, might become distractions from what God has specifically called you to do.

Join us every Monday at 8pm for new episodes as we teach God's people how to walk in victory during every attack of the enemy. Share this podcast with someone who needs clarity on recognizing and defeating Satan's distractions in their life.

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Well, god bless you. My friends, you've tuned into the Storm in the Gates podcast with Bishop Eugene Taylor. Please remember that we're here releasing new videos every Monday at 8 pm and on the Storm in the Gates podcast we're teaching God's people how to walk in the victory that God has for the life in every attack of the enemy. It's been a blessing as we've been moving forward with these storming the gates podcast and I'm so thankful for the responses that we've seen and everyone telling us how blessed they've been about storming the gates. As we move forward, I want to be taking some of these sessions and I want to be doing some solo podcasts and I want to be doing some teaching, specific teachings targeted in certain areas. So I want you to continue to tell the neighbors and tell the friends to join us. I want you to share this video. What I'm talking about tonight. I certainly hope that it blesses somebody, brings clarity to somebody's life. You know, when I teach, I teach a lot on spiritual warfare. That's not all I teach on. I teach on the whole council of God, but I teach on spiritual warfare. I teach. I teach a lot on spiritual warfare. That's not all I teach on. I teach on the whole counsel of God. I teach on spiritual warfare, I teach on deliverance, because I found out something that many times when we teach, we teach on faith, we teach on blessings and we teach on how we can walk in the favor of God, but we don't prepare people how to fight. Because the truth of the matter is, if you're really going to walk this Christian walk, the Bible said that we would endure hardness as a good soldier. So the Bible lets us know that, as believers, that we have one aspect of our walk that shows us that we have to know how to fight. That's the fight of the soldier. But then the Bible also talks about running this race with patience. So we also see the picture that while we're working as a fighter, we also have to be an athlete. And when I say an athlete, I'm not talking about athlete because you're a sprinter, but you've got to be a marathon runner. I heard somebody said that the race was not given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but they said it's the he that endures to the end.

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So I'm going to take a few weeks and begin to teach, and I want to talk about some of the things that the enemy uses against God's people. The scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians, 10 chapter, that we're not fighting against flesh and blood. No, we don't fight against flesh and blood, and we have to understand that the fight that we fight is a spiritual fight. So tonight I want to talk with you a little bit. I want you to share this with somebody that you got to promise you're going to share this with somebody because it's going to help somebody. And tonight I want to talk about distractions.

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And when I talk about distractions I say distractions is one of Satan's most strategic plans that he uses against God's people. Father, give us grace as we teach tonight. Let the spirit of wisdom and revelation be operative that we can speak in the lives of God's people, in Jesus name. You know, when we talk about distractions, the word distract it basically means to draw away, to draw away from focus, to draw away from purpose, to draw away from attention. Distraction is anything that takes our eyes, and I'm talking about particularly when I'm talking about spiritual distractions anything that takes our eyes off of keeping focused on Jesus. You know, sometimes my mind goes and thinks about Matthew, the 14th chapter. You know that's the story when Peter was walking on water. And if you start looking around, verse 26, it says and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled and they said it is a spirit, and they cried out for fear. But straightway, jesus speaking to them, saying be of good cheer, it is, I, be not afraid. Now, that's something, isn't it, that they're saying a miracle and he tells them don't be afraid.

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I like to teach on fear, because fear operates along with doubt and unbelief. Almost like fear, doubt and unbelief like their first cousins, because they work together to prevent us from stepping in and getting access to the things that God has for us. So the first thing that you find that Jesus deals with, he deals with their fear. The Bible teaches us that God has not given us the spirit of fear. And I want you to hear me, if you don't deal with your fear and you know you can say fear, apprehension.

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Sometimes we masquerade fear and try to give it a completely different title, but if you don't deal with these things, these things are things that prevent you from moving forward. Fear paralyzes a person, it cripples a person, it makes a person become stagnated because they're afraid to take a step. So now Jesus is getting ready to give them an invitation. The invitation he's going to give them is to take a step. So the first thing he lets them know he says be not afraid. And Peter responds to him and he says he said, lord, if it is you, bid me to come into thee on water. And the only thing that Jesus said to him is come on water. And the only thing that Jesus said to him is come. Isn't it something? Because many times when we, as believers, when we get a word from the Lord, we actually get the word that we're asking God for, but we want that thing to be confirmed two times, three times, 19 times, 163 times. We want that thing to be confirmed over and over and over. But God gave him a word and once God gives him the word, the onus, the responsibility is on him to begin to make the move.

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And the Bible said when Peter came down out of the ship, he walked on water, and when he walked on water to Jesus, but when he saw the wind boisterous and he was afraid, when I was younger, in my late 20s, I began to deal with the text and the Lord showed me something. The Bible said he saw that the wind was boisterous. And once again, what happened? He was afraid. Once again, here comes fear and it comes to take the miracle away from him. Fear will take your miracle. Fear will take your faith. Fear will take your blessing.

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The Bible says he was afraid and the next thing it says and beginning to sink, he began to sink. Now what's interesting to me is what happened is that the boisterous winds and waves they distracted him. The boisterous winds and waves, they distracted him. That the boisterous winds and waves. The truth of the matter is they had nothing to do with what was going on with him walking on water, because if the waves had not been boisterous, if there had been no winds, he still did not have the ability to walk on water.

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But that's how distractions work. Distractions will cause you to take your eyes off of God, take your eyes off of what God is doing, take your eyes off of watch this, of the process of momentum, and it will cause you to focus on something else. And the scripture said as soon as he focused on something else, what happened? He began to sink. I want to say to you that are listening to me on today, as soon as you come into a place of momentum and the enemy offers some type of strategic distraction to you, the next thing that's going to happen is you're going to begin to sink.

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But I've got to admit that Peter is a hero, because Peter comes back and he realizes that I see what the problem is. He said and Lord, save me. I thank God, that the God that we serve, he's the God of a second chance, because when he came back, even though he had a faux pas, even though he had a mistake, even though he did something that threw him out of momentum, but but when he really repented and I want you to understand, we use that word repentance, but sometimes we use that word repentance, but sometimes we use that word repentance but not really understanding what it means. Repentance doesn't just mean to say I'm sorry. There are a lot of people that say I'm sorry, but it's really not true repentance. What they do? They say I'm sorry, but they keep doing the same thing. But he said I'm sorry and he began to turn in an opposite direction thing. But he said I'm sorry and he began to turn in an opposite direction.

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I want to submit to you on today If you're going to get a breakthrough when it comes to distractions. If you're going to get a breakthrough and you're going to get placed back into the place of momentum, it's not just for you to repent by saying I'm sorry, but there has to be a changing of my mind. I wish you would open your mouth on tonight and say a changing of my mind. My mind has to change. And the Bible said immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and he said to him oh thou of little faith. Now I know a lot of times, when we preach this message and we teach this message, this becomes a message that we deal with that he had little faith. But the reason that he had the little faith is because he was distracted.

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What does that allow us to understand? It allows us to understand that distractions hinder your faith. Did you hear what I said? I said distractions hinder your faith. How do I know that? Because right after that he said wherefore didst thou doubt? Because right after that he said wherefore didst thou doubt? Why did you let the distractions bring you into a place of doubt? I don't want us to lose sight. What are we saying on tonight? What did we say? We said when it comes to distractions, distractions do what it means to draw us away from. What does it draw us away from? It draws away from our focus, it draws away from our purpose and it draws away from our attention. It draws away from our purpose and it draws away from our attention. Can I say that again? It draws away from our focus, it draws away from our purpose and it draws away from our attention.

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One of the things that I want you to understand that when we talk about distractions, is that many times distractions are subtle. They're subtle. They're not as obvious and blatant as you may think. Distractions come in so many different forms. Some distractions come abruptly and some distractions are so subtle that if you really do not have an eye-opening experience, you won't even realize that that is a distraction. Satan doesn't always attack us with obvious evil. No, no, no. He doesn't do that with obvious evil. No, no, no. He doesn't do that. Many times he uses distractions watch this to wear us down. He'll use a distraction to delay us.

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When I talk about delaying us, I think about Daniel, the 10th chapter. But the Bible talks about when Daniel was waiting on an answer from God and the angel lets him know that he was released from the very first day that you prayed. But he said the prince of Perpersia, which was a territorial principality, a territorial spirit. He was there to make sure that the answer did not get back to Daniel. So watch this he did not have the ability, he didn't have the ability to stop it, but his objective was to delay it. And, if I can delay it, it causes you to become distracted because, you know, many times because we operate in patience but the Bible lets us know that the trying of our faith work with patience and many times because we're impatient, if something takes too long, that delay by itself becomes a distraction. So that demonic spirit that hindered the answer that was supposed to be coming to Daniel, because it was designed to delay, delay, delay, delay, and if we delay it he'll get distracted and he'll turn it loose. Use it to deter us as well. I just want to talk to you a little bit tonight. You ought to just say amen.

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I was thinking the book of Luke, the 10th chapter, verses 38 through 42. You know the story. I'm going to start off tonight and I just want to talk about some basic points of distraction. It's that now, when it came to pass, they went and that he entered into a certain village there was a certain woman named Martha and a certain woman, I'm sorry. A certain woman named Martha received him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, which is also sat at Jesus' feet, heard his word, but Martha was comforted about much serving and came to him and said Lord, dost thou not care that my sister have left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her Martha, martha. He called her name twice. I want to tell you something Many times in the scripture you will see that God will call people's names twice.

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He'll say Abraham, abraham, samuel, samuel, martha, martha, peter, peter. I want you to realize that two represents a number of covenant. He said Martha, thou art Peter, peter. I want you to realize that two represents a number of covenant. He said Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. In other words, he said Martha, you're disturbed about a whole lot of stuff. He said, but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that the good part, which shall not be taken away from her. You know, when you look at that story, it's an interesting story and I want you to go back and look at that. It's Luke, the 10th chapter, verses 38 through 42.

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Martha was very busy and she was busy doing good things. She was preparing, she was serving, she was working. I've learned something that you can be doing good things but it may not necessarily be your assignment. Therefore, the good things you're doing becomes a distraction. You know, sometimes many people are busy doing what I call church work and they're so busy doing church work but they're not necessarily working in their assignment. So they're doing good, great things. But watch this the good great thing I've been there. I'm not telling you something when I think I'm telling you what I know. I've been there the good great things that they're doing. They're doing those things but they're distracted because they're not working in their assignment. And there's something I want you to always remember that your grace is in your assignment. Your grace is in your assignment. But Mary said no, I'm not going to do all that. And Mary said I'm going to sit at his feet and hear his word. She said I want to make it just as simple as this. I'm going to sit right here and be focused to what he's saying, that when he does finally speak to me, I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is him.

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Martha, she was worried, she's upset, and the thing is she was worried and upset and she was upset, worried and upset about many things, many things, many things, many things. Upset, worried and upset about many things, many things, many things, many things. Listen, because one of the things that happens when you're distracted, everything begins to irritate you. When you're distracted, everything begins to bother you. Sometimes you're so disturbed you don't even know specifically what it is that bother you. The Bible says she was worried and upset about many things because she was not distracted and she wasn't clear and solid on the assignment that Jesus was to bring into her house.

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But Jesus said there's only one thing that's really necessary. Lord, have mercy. I feel like teaching a message called necessary things. He said there's only one thing that's needful. He said and Mary has chosen the needful thing. What was the needful thing? To sit at his feet. And here's where it's sitting at his feet, what means a place of humility. That's what I mean when I say sitting at his feet, that I'm in a humble place, a humble place within myself and I can hear the instructions of God.

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One of the things I want you to understand that all distractions are not sinful. Sometimes, when we see distractions, the only thing here is it's just a misprioritized agenda. It's just a place where our priorities are out of place. A misprioritized agenda becomes a distraction. That it's not that you're doing things, it's not that there's sinful things, but you can have an agenda that lacks priority and then, because you've not dealt with the priority of your agenda the good things they actually become distractions. And what happens is when good things become distractions, they take us away from the focus that God has for our life. Satan uses distractions. Distractions will disrupt your worship, it'll disrupt your relationship with God, it'll disrupt your walk with God.

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The Bible says in Mark, the first chapter, verse 35, is that Jesus had to rise early in the morning and go to a solitary walk with God. The Bible says in Mark, the first chapter, verse 35,. It said Jesus had to rise early in the morning and go to a solitary place to pray because he realized I've got to get away from all of these distractions, because when I go to a place of prayer, one of the things that happens is that God gives me strategies. I like to call them strategic downloads. Did y'all like that phrase? I just used God gives me strategic downloads when I begin to get to a place of prayer. So we follow Jesus' example. It's Mark, first chapter, verse 35. He went to a solitary place.

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You've got to find a solitary physical place. You've got to find a solitary place of time You've got to take as a Christian believer, you've got to take some time that you set to the side, that you get into a private place and you get into that place and you begin to pray and meditate and spend time with God and one of the things that's going to happen is that God is going to give you strategies. Satan, he'll fill your schedule, your mind, he'll fill your schedule with so much stuff and all of this stuff is designed to keep you out of the presence of God, because in the presence of God you get answers. In the presence of God you have resolutions. In the presence of God you get strategies. So one of the things that you need to say to yourself is busyness is not always faithfulness. I'm going to say that one more time. I'm going to say busyness is not always faithfulness. Just because you're being busy with something does not necessarily you're being necessarily mean you're being faithful to the assignment that god has for you, that's for you.

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There's a passage of scripture in the book of Hebrews, the 12th chapter, that says "'Let us throw off everything that hinders us, "'that we may run with perseverance'". Every weight, every weight, said that you would take off every weight. Some things are not sin, some things are weights. Some things, some relationships that we have, they're weights. And I'm not saying that you have to annihilate the relationship to bring the relationship to an end, but sometimes the enemy will use soul ties, and every soul tie is not a soul tie between the man and a woman. There's some soul ties that have no intimacy to them at all. There's some soul ties that they're relationships that we should not be connected onto that level. There's some relationships. People have relationships that they won't move forward in certain areas because they're concerned what someone will think with their move. So what happened is that relationship becomes a burden on my assignment. Are you hearing what I'm saying? It becomes a burden on our assignment and the intention of that and the attention of that demonic strategy is to slow you down and pull you off of focus.

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So one of the things we have to understand is Paul warns us in 2 Corinthians, 11 chapter, third verse. He warns us, he talks about how the serpent deceived Eve and Satan can corrupt our minds. He can corrupt our minds. The simplicity is in Jesus Christ, the enemy with Keegan. He can corrupt our minds through the power of suggestion.

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Now, one of the things I want you to understand that the devil can't make you do anything. I hear people talking about the devil made me do it. The devil can't make you do anything. He can strongly suggest, he can operate through the power of suggestion, but he can't make you do anything. You are what we call a free will agent and one of the things that God God never forces anyone to do anything. When you force people to do something, that's manipulation. You understand? God has given us our own mind. We have the ability to make decisions. That's the way that sin came into the world. The way that sin came to the world is because Adam and Eve made a decision. So God said I haven't taken that away from you. You still have the ability to make a decision, but the enemy can give it through the power of suggestion. He can bring suggestions and suggestive thoughts to our mind and if we accept those thoughts because one of the things you have to understand about a thought you can accept the thought or you can reject the thought.

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The Bible talks about pulling down strongholds and casting down imaginations. Just think about this casting down images, that the image would be cast down, it would be destroyed. How many times I talk about how that phrase pulling down strongholds it comes from a Greek word, tarathesios, which means not only to pull it down, but that you would demolish it as well. So you have to understand. One of the things he does is he tries to bring deception into our mind, because that's all he can do. Because the Bible says in 1 Thessalonians, 5 and 23 that we're spirit, soul and body. But when we get saved and born again, our spirit man is regenerated. You know, I've taught you that in the past and our body is not saved. But our body is not saved and our soul is not the part of us that gets saved, our soul, which is our mind, will and emotions. Our soul goes through a sanctification process, but what happens is the enemy can make a suggestion in your mind. And one of the things that you must understand every time a negative thought gets in your mind, you don't have to speak that out, because the Bible said we're snared by the very words of our mouth.

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The enemy cannot read your mind. Let me say that again. I want you to hear me. Satan does not have the ability to read your mind. Satan is not omniscient. He does not know everything. There are some things that the only way he knows it is. When you begin to speak, when you begin to say I can't take anymore, the devil says I didn't know you couldn't take anymore, so I'm on the right track. So if I keep pressuring you the way that I'm pressuring you, I realize that you're at a breaking point. How did you find that? I found it out from you because you spoke it out of your mouth. So he'll come and the enemy will come and he'll try to what to say. He'll detour your assignment.

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My mind begins to think about Nehemiah, the sixth chapter, when Nehemiah was rebuilding the wall and the Bible said in verses the sixth chapter, verses one through three, it said now it came to pass when Samballot and Tobiah and Geshem, the Arabian and the rest of our armies heard that I'd build the wall, this Nehemiah speaking, he said, and there was no breach left there Through at that time I had not set the doors upon the gates that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying come, let us meet together in some of the villages in the plain of Ono. He says listen, come, we're going to have a meeting. This is very important. We need to always have a meeting.

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I heard a guy preach one time and it was something about the plain of Ono, he said, and it was something about the importance of staying on the wall. He said and when someone tries to get you to go to Ono, you turn around and look at them and say Ono, ono, I'm not going there. So that's what you need to do. When somebody tries to direct you to the plane of oh no, you say oh no, I'm not going there. He said, but they thought to do him mischief. He said but what he did? He did not get distracted. He sent messengers. He said I won't even engage them myself. There's some things that you don't even have the time to address yourself. He said I sent somebody else to speak to him. He said I sent message into them saying I'm doing a great work so that I cannot come down now. In other words, he says this right here I refuse to be distracted.

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Satan will send distractions and he'll send them disguising opportunities. Sometimes you have an opportunity that I just can't let this opportunity go. I just can't, and many times because people, because they don't understand their specific assignments when opportunities come. When opportunities come, those opportunities distract them because they're not clear on their assignment. That's why we talk about the importance of spending time with God, because the Holy Spirit that's inside of you, he will give clarity to your assignments. So, with all of these different, I've had some phenomenal opportunities come to me, especially over the last couple of years. Some phenomenal opportunities, but phenomenal business opportunities, and some of them were good. Some of them I looked at, but there was some that I said if I did this, the financial reward would be substantial. But the problem is I would be completely distracted from my assignment. Oh no, we can't do that.

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Then sometimes he'll use critics. Different people will criticize what you're doing. Some people can't take criticism, so criticism comes and somebody criticizes them. That becomes a distraction. Am I doing this right, especially someone that deals with low confidence and low self-esteem? Am I doing this right? What are people thinking about me? But I want you to realize that that is one of the things that the enemy uses when it comes to distractions. He'll use criticisms, that somebody's criticism of you. It distracts you, and what did I say distraction does? To draw you away, to pull you in another direction. Then he'll use conflict and he'll use all these things to pull you off the wall. But I want to say, like they used to say years ago it is your responsibility to make sure that you stay on the wall.

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A few moments ago I referenced and I was talking about the spirit of delay how there's a danger of prolonged distraction. If you get distracted too long, one of the things that happens is you'll miss the timing of God. There's some things that God will release to you and you've got a window, sometimes a small window. I remember about eight years ago, an opportunity came to me and when the opportunity came to me, I wasn't clear on what I should do it or not and I told the person let me get back with you. And when I told him that and I hung the phone up, the spirit of God spoke to me and said you've got a small window and if this window closes, you won't be able to open it again. One of the things that I want to say to you is that when distraction is prolonged, it will cause you to miss the timing of God. And then the other thing that happens is that if distraction is prolonged, it'll cause you to drift away, meaning this that eventually you don't even notice how far you've wandered away from your purpose, because what happens is that it goes little bit by little bit and you can be distracted so long that you'll be so far. You've wandered so far away from your purpose, wandered so far away from your calling, wandered so far away from what God told you to do. Why? Because this wasn't just distraction, but it was what we call delayed distraction.

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So we've got to understand the Bible tells us in Matthew 6 and 33, seek ye first the kingdom of God that if we understand that putting God first and the kingdom first in everything that we do our family, our business, my wife and I have been married 35 years how have you all had a successful marriage for 35 years? Because the core of our marriage is that we put God first in everything we do. In my household, my children understood as they were growing up God is first. There's certain things that we do not do in my house because God is first See 6 and 33, matthew 6 and 33, seek ye first the kingdom of God and that becomes the proper priority of our life. Seek ye first. The word first comes from a Greek word, proton, which deals with time, rank and order, meaning that the priority of the kingdom, the priority of God, becomes the first thing in our life. All the other things, god will add it unto you. God's saying I don't want to rob you of the other things, but I'll release to you the other things when the priorities are in order. So you got to start your day. One of the things that I believe in is starting my day off seeking God.

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David says something in Psalm 63 and 1. Most theologians believe that Psalm 63 and 1 is when David has been appointed as king. And he's appointed as king and at the same time they're seeking to take his life, and while David is on the run, he's concerned about his life and what's going to happen. They say that he writes the psalm and said early, while I seek the old Lord, before I start my day, before I make any plans, before I know what direction I'm going to go in, I'm going to seek you early. But then there's another school of thought when it comes to Psalm 63. The other school of thought is that this was written when his son Absalom was trying to kill him. And they were saying that when his son Absalom was trying to kill him and they were seeking after David because David was on the run that David got up and he wrote this song and he said, okay, as I'm on the run and I'm concerned about my life, he says early will I seek thee, o Lord? Either one, whatever it was, we know that David is the writer and we understand that the position of David was that my strategy is to seek God first.

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So one of the things that I want to say to you in closing and I hope what some of what we shared tonight in this podcast will be a help to you I want you to know the Bible teaches us in Proverbs 4 and 23, that it's important for us to guard our heart. Be careful of what and who has access to your time, who has access to your mind, who has access to your emotions. I want to tell you something what God, what I'm talking, what the enemy will do. He likes to use people that are close to you because we become a distraction. The writer said this. He asked him. He said what is this wound that you have in your hand. He said I got it in the house of a friend, somebody that was close, someone that had access to my heart.

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The truth of the matter is I don't know if you're like me. If it's not somebody that's that close to my heart, they can say whatever they want to say to me. It doesn't bother me because they really don't carry that type of value in my life. But you've got to watch who you let get close to your heart. You've got to guard your relationship, guard your mind, guard your time, guard your emotion. You have to guard them because if you don't, the enemy will use that close proximity to bring destructions in your life. You got to learn how to say no to things, even if they're good, if they're going to become a distraction for you.

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I'm going to be doing some more teaching on this. I hope some of what we shared tonight I hope it'll be a help to you shared tonight, I hope it'll be a help to you. I hope it'll speak to your life, because I'm realizing as time is going on that many people, the downfall they're having is because they're being distracted by the enemy, and I'm learning that these type of distractions are one of Satan's most powerful tools that he uses to hinder the purpose that God has for our life. So I want you to make sure you stay tuned. We're on Storming the Gates and we're going to be teaching a whole lot about the satanic plans and the schemes that the enemy uses against God's people, because we're committed to making sure that you walk in the victory that God has for your life.

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You tuned in to the Storming the Gates podcast. I want you to share this podcast with somebody and let them know that we release a new podcast every Monday and if they listen to these podcasts and look at some of our writings and teaching, they're going to be much better. Why? Because we have been charged to do what We've been charged to storm the gates. Listen until our next podcast. May the Lord bless you. May the Lord keep you is always my prayer. I'll see you a little.