10/23/2026
Start of the day blessings and confessions
Focus-distraction-double minded
James emphatically declares that a double minded man cannot even imagine he will be able to receive anything from the Lord. Double minded means a man that is twice in mind sets, twice in feelings, twice in desires and twice in affections, twice in destination and twice in focus or his focus is out of focus! This person is torn by wanting to believe, but allowing every wavering wind push them further into doubt and fear.
At all times we need to make up our mind in what we believe and why, this is the foundation of everything we pray for, if we hope to receive the answers for all our prayers. The psalmist declares on the day I called upon You, You will answer. This palmist was single minded and fully expecting an answer.
Sometimes adversities can create a blowing wind of confusion of doubt and fear, we allow our minds to think and imagine defeat and failure. But James warns us of being twice minded. How many times have we all hit a wall or found ourselves glaring into a sea and our thoughts and imaginations ran wild. We can appreciate how the Israelites felt looking into the expanse of the Red Sea with an enemy charging from the rear. However, we are warned to stay single minded and focused. I have found myself in this place, it seems that we are being boxed in, our enemies are gloating over us and then the wait for an answer or a breakthrough it can seem excruciating.
Jesus makes this statement in Luke 18:1. I wish all men would pray and not faint, lose heart or give up. This command from Christ sets the tone how we should pray. James further explains the reason for this, if we expect to receive anything from God, the. We have to be singularly focused. When we feel we are boxed in or trapped by circumstances there are certain responses we must have if we expect to have a victory.
First, we need to identify what our battle actually is, not assumed, but a specific issue.
Second: we need to craft our response based on the word of God. What is the exact promises that deal with this circumstance.
Third. Pray in the Spirit until we have the wisdom to speak, it is by allowing the Spirit to pray the perfect will of God in us.
Fourth. Settle the answer and promise in our mind and soul. This settlement in our thinking is the conduit to our believing and speaking. Jesus says in Matthew that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The mouth speaks what is rolling in our minds and souls. Get the answer concretely planted inside of us and be steadfast.
Fifth. Pray, worship and give thanks in faith, single minded and with the words that create the atmosphere of potentiality for the impossible to become possible.
In my life these battles have been not easy, usually very intense and long, but God has never failed me not a single time. Proverbs 22:17; says: we should listen and consent to the words of wisdom, apply our mind to knowledge, for it will be pleasant if we keep them in our minds believing them, and our lips will be accustomed to speaking them so our trust and belief will be in Jehovah.
Right mindsets come from the right input of wisdom and knowledge from Jehovah. This is our foundation to find our breakthroughs and victories. Single minded. Settled in our soul. Our mouths speaking life. Our focus on the horizon, and worshiping and giving thanks without ceasing. Remember the 4 movements of life. Stand, walk, sit and meditate and speak. This covers all of those. So be still and know He is God.
It must be in faith that he asks with no wavering no hesitating, no doubting.
For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,
For being as he is a man of two minds hesitating, dubious, irresolute, he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides. James 1:6-8