{"id":5083,"date":"2016-06-08T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:22:32","slug":"keep-your-eyes-on-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/keep-your-eyes-on-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Philippians 3:13-14<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cBrethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, <span id=\"en-NKJV-29436\">I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.<\/span>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently I was watching\u00a0an automobile race on television when the announcer commented that this was no time for the driver to look in his rear view mirror. Any such distraction such as looking at who is pursuing and how close they are can take a driver\u2019s attention from what he is supposed to do and could cost the race.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard coaches give the same advice to athletes who are in a foot race or other sporting venues. It is good advice that applies equally to our walk with the Lord. We may be tempted to look back at the glory days, or we may look back at the approaching enemy, but we are told to look ahead.<\/p>\n<p>It is tragic to observe believers who have lost their race for the Lord because they took their eyes off the Goal. There are many distractions that can demand our attention and result in a spiritual derailment.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to finishing our spiritual race with victory is to keep our eyes on the prize that lies before us. The things of this world will lose their appeal as we see Jesus only!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 3:13-14 \u201cBrethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.\u201d Recently I was watching\u00a0an automobile race on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}