Looking Unto Jesus (Part 4)!

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Sunday, August 31, 2025 Topic: LOOKING UNTO JESUS (Part 4)! Memory Verse: "They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed" - Psalms 34:5 NKJV Bible Text: Hebrews 12:2 KJV 2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. INSPIRATION: How many of you, like me, experimented with a magnifying lense and paper under the hot sun to see if it would burn? To make it burn with flames requires you to focus the rays of the sun on a spot on the paper for much longer. As kids, those who couldn't stay focused did not experience the burning flames on their paper. In similar vein, when your focus on Jesus is not well directed, you won't get the results it ought to produce. It won't ignite the 'flames' needed to initiate your expected miraculous outcome. You'll never understand the importance and power of focus until you gain spiritual clarity that you could miss something or something could go wrong when you're not alert to its need. “That’s a hard one!” said Elijah to Elisha. “But if you’re watching when I’m taken from you, you’ll get what you’ve asked for. But only if you’re watching" (2 Kings 2:10 MSG). The operating word is 'watching.' To look unto to Jesus is to watch with a focused gaze. If Elisha missed it, he misses everything. Same way you miss everything when your eyes go off the Master. Peter lost focus, he began to sink (Matt. 14: 30). TODAY'S TAKE HOME: Stay focused on Jesus. Keep your eyes, heart and spirit intently watching Him. Do no waver or you may miss an Impartation that's crucial to your purpose in life. PRAYER: O Lord, I'm determined to stay focused on you until I trigger a miracle. I'm rooted in my conviction that there's no way else but You, so I choose to cast my everything on You and never to look back, in Jesus name.