7-Day Challenge: Focus On What Is Pure

my leaders ladies and gentlemen you are now tuned in to J's Mike home of the world's toughest leaders it's a pleasure to have you join me today today I'm going get straight into it tonight because if you're watching this video it's literally December 1st as of the recording of this video and I want us to start off this month very strong okay moving forward so I want to pray for us real quick heavenly father in The Mighty name of Jesus Christ Lord I Thank you for this time I thank you for this hour Lord cover me give me the words that you will have me vessel into this leader today

Lord this leader is a talented individual this leader is a specific person that you've chosen to watch this video so father let them hear a word from me so that I may encourage them and whatever calling that you've called them to I just want to give them words of encouragement so God use me today in this moment in this hour in Jesus mighty name we pray amen my leaders thank you for joining me today um I have a word for you and it's specifically about focus on what is pure okay focus on what is pure and Lord has been speaking to me lately about this um where has my mind

been um what are the things that should I be focused on what things should I start doing what things should I start pursuing and I realized I kind of been distracted and I had to repent for my recent distraction and I do want to apologize for my recent absent um I haven't been on line posting but I've definitely been in the community um helping individuals out and it's been awesome with all of the individuals I'm getting to meet and because of this I'm seeing a need there's new there's new things that I'm seeing that are on the horizon that we need to speak about and so I thank you for

joining me um my name is Mike ja on your chair Lam if this is your first time joining me I'm a certified life coach um eventually going to be a full-time counselor um and potentially going towards becoming a pastor and check this out the reason I speak this message is I do this because I know that anytime I'm going through something yes I'm in my word yes I'm I'm hearing from the Lord but I love it when God sends me people to pour into me and my only wish is that this video pours into you so if you're watching this video today my assignment is just to remind you to

focus of focus on the things of God focus on the things of God and I want us to read out of Philippians 4 4 and I want us to read Philippians 4: 8 okay and it says finally Brethren now it says finally here in KJV I want y'all to read the whole chapter 4 and if you can't read chapter 3 but for the sake of time right now I want us to read just this verse and I'm going to break some things down it says finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are

of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things and so something I want us to speak about right now if you see me looking down is cuz I got my notes here I'm going to have more notes this season because I want to be able to elaborate when I'm spending time with God I'm writing so much notes and I'm breaking things down and so a lot of times I just want to do it off the top but bear with me as I look down it's like my it's like my pull pit it's like my full pit right now and I actually

got a flock of deer about five or six of them just sitting down chilling and so I know I'm my my presence is right now it's at peace right now so check this out one thing that the Lord is showing me lately is there have been people coming to me and they they want to be pushed towards remaining consistent with certain certain disciplines okay and it's crazy CU everybody is something whether it's they want to finish writing a book they want to stop masturbation right they need some support in that they want to stop the smoking a lot of them I've met over like four or five people within the

past two months that just want to stop smoking um alcohol I've met a lot of individuals that are going towards the sobriety so really this message is about doing a s day challenge this message is going to be short and in this 7day challenge I'm prompted to just have us focus on the things that are here and if you're watching this video right now you can email me at jaag Global atgmailcom I'm going say that again jaag Global atgmailcom and down below in the description I want you to send me an email of something that you want me to hold you accountable for for seven days okay I don't know

what that is and what that looks like for you but I wanted you to know that this is between you and I and I want to be able to hold you accountable I already have people emailing me right now but I want to hold you accountable for these next seven days just to get you started maybe you need a spark in something okay maybe you just need a a a simple message in a day but I want you to send me an email or slide through my DMs life coach forj on Instagram and what I'm going to do is I'm going to send you an audio whether it's a word

of encouragement whether it's a prayer I just want to hold you accountable because I know if you take the next seven days to overcome this you're going to gain a sense of momentum okay so this is about the scripture right now finally Brethren whatsoever things are true Within These next seven days we're going to focus on things that are true so if there's any lies if there's been any false allegations right if there's the the enemy wants to come to kill steal and destroy so what's going to happen within these next seven days the enemy is going to look to kill your momentum look to destroy your moment momentum and

look to distract your momentum by putting lies in front of you by putting Temptation in front of you those who are going on a no fap challenge right what the enemy is going to do is going to come in with a a level of Temptation that you've never seen before in order to get you to fall short to to pornography the enemy is going to get you you to think that you're missing out on something that has been giv you great pleasure your dopamine has just been all over the place like you're super excited to go and jump into this sin again that you just said that you would never

go back so there's this temptation to not focus on the things that are true and when focusing on the things that are true you got to go to the book of truth and that's to focus back on the word okay and check this I got a word for this and this is about the Temptation the God's been speaking me a lot about Temptation okay this word temptation and I'm going to read this out of 1 Corinthians Corinthians 10:13 and I I originally thought this temptation was just a lust temptation but really there's a temptation to not practice your disciplines when it comes to for me like anger I used to

have the pornography addiction that Temptation has been worn over by the grace of God but now what I find myself in now that it's not that it's been how can I control my emotions and so there's a temptation to go back to the old me so the enemy would love to remind me of the old me the one that likes to get mad the one that likes to curse all the time the one that likes to to tell somebody like it is but what I realize is the word talks about to resist the devil and he will flee so check this verse out 1 Corinthians 10:13 says there had no

temptation taken you but such as is common to men but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the Temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to Bear it and I realized with temptation there's a way to escape and the word talks about fleeing temptation so running away from temptation is a good thing running away from getting angry blowing up on somebody in a conversation people that you respect people that you love and not saying something that's going to hurt their feelings is a good thing running away when you you some of y'all is

food you're trying to get away from eating certain specific foods that you're not supposed to be diving in I got a lot of folks doing health challenges now shout out to my herbalist and there's a temptation to eat the food you out with the crib you're out at the crib or you out you're inside the crib or you're at home and there's this there's this desire that you have in your spirit to just eat all types of all types of food you're not supposed to be eating throw the food away run the other way or tell people so that you can be accountable accountable okay for the discipline of eating

right so that you don't go towards gluttony or that you don't go toward breaking a a promise because of the desires of your flesh there's a temptation of sex there's the temptation to get angry there's a temptation to be a glutton some of y'all it's it's the alcohol and you want to go on this 7-Day challenge because the alcohol has been getting you like me in the past it used to be daar to go daar to go used to be my best friend I needed to go to the Asian spy I used to live in Houston Texas um back in my college days and I would go to a daar

to go place the Asian lady will hook my drink up this back when I used to drink heavy back when I was addicted to alcohol and I had to have it almost every single day just to numb out my pain I would go to this one spot and as I'm there every single time she would just spike it up just a little more that would keep me in this cycle cuz I didn't have no self-control I didn't have no discipline and I didn't know of better ways to cope with the things that I was doing in my life so some of y'all it may be the the same solution or

the same occurrence you're dealing with some alcohol addiction and you're trying to get on a path where you're trying to go toward sobriety there's centers that you can go to there's programs that you can start and I just want to be a catalyst right now to say hey if you're trying to go on seven days without drinking and you need an accountability pardner somebody's going to speak into to you send me an email again okay but think about this what I just said in the beginning we want to focus on things that are pure and there's other addictions that people are going through like uh like smoking for instance I'm

going just come clean I'm going open up there was times in my life where smoking was the thing that I thought you know what this smoking is is easing my stress it's it's curing my pain it's removing the dirt it's wiping away my stains is bringing comfort and a calm relaxation to my brain oh how sweet this smoke is that's how I felt there was a a love and a poetic poetry between me and and the love of the smoke I needed it I needed it because it was what I relied on on for peace it was what I relied on for Comfort it was what I relied on to

take care of all my pains and my worries only to realize it was only a temporary solution I needed to break free and find better Alternatives so I'm not inhaling and smoking and the carcinogens that are in this the smoke are not killing my lungs causing me to cough I needed to rely on something else and it's I'm not condemning smokers it's not for me to condemn but what I'm saying is if this is something that you know that you have to stop doing and you need accountability for because it's just not something that is for you let me hold you accountable okay and we're going to start here we're

going to start to focus on the things that are pure so I just named a few different different things and there's a lot more but for the sake of this time for the sake of this video focus on what is pure Philippians 4:8 finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of a good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think of these things so now what I need us to do within this 7day challenge okay I need us to renew our mind right now it's about renewing the

mind if these Temptations have a way of Escape that means that at the same time Temptation shows up God has offered a way of Escape as well too now we have the autonomy to choose which one that we want to do I want to go towards the temptation temptation or do I want to for a second pause and go towards what's pure and what I've come to realize is that it's not always it don't always feel right when I'm going towards the exit because there's times if I'm being honest where I want to go towards I want to go towards the Temptation I want to go towards the flesh I

want to go towards the anger I want to go towards the alcohol I want to go towards the drugs I want to go towards the porn there's times where my flesh wants to go towards those things and what I've come to realize my leader that's watching this video and I thank you for watching this up until this point you are 16 minutes minutes in what I've come to realize is what helps me out is stopping for a moment to pray and if I don't have time to stop for a moment the next best thing that I could do is get up out of there and it may sound weak and

it would be weak if the Bible didn't talk about finging the devil and fleeing Temptation because there's a time where we got to get the heck up out of there and check this out how do we renew our minds with the things that are pure what I'm suggesting my leaders if you're on this this is this is Christian Counseling and it is Jesus Christ who for me my leaders the reason I do this in the format that I do this and I use biblical principles is because Jesus Christ took me from committing suicide back in 2014 and what he revealed to me is that I need to get my mind

renewed there's a scripture uh Romans 12:2 it says do not conform to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God by renewing my mind daily into the word seeing what he has to say in in scripture scripture understanding the exeresis of these texts what the original intention of the text and asking Holy Spirit to reveal how this connects to my own life what I realize is as I read the word more I'm not focused on the things that are of a bad report I don't want to focus on the things that cause

me to be angry I don't want to go towards the Temptation the things that cause me to lust I don't want to live in a way or start thinking about the stress of life that caused me to want to drink or smoke the the cigarette or smoke the weat I don't want to do those things and so the only way for me to not think and dwell on these things is to start reading my word I got to hear verses like a Matthews Matthews 26:41 which says watch and pray that you enter not into temptation the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak it says watch and pray this

is what the Lord was telling his disciples when they found out that Jesus Christ had to go die on the cross there was a Mourning and there was a weeping but this was a crucifixion that Jesus Christ had to go through if Jesus is telling me to watch and pray that I may not enter Temptation he he's he's given me a command to pause for a second and just begin to pray cuz every single time whenever I wanted to go towards pornography and I got to a moment where I could just okay I feel the desire and I could just stop and pray I get Victory when I feel the

temptation to get angry and if I could just stop and pray and not allow that emotion to come out my mouth I'm Victorious or when I don't have time to pray if I could just flee of of Temptation if I could just cut off the application if I could just move to a different different destination if I could just renew my mind and just change the situation I experienc Victory this seven days what we're going to do is we're going to experience Victory okay and the victory is going to be on how we renew our minds okay my leaders so 7day challenge if you want to join the 7-Day Challenge

and I don't care when you see this video to be honest cuz we're going to keep doing 7-Day 7-Day challenges your challenge may be on a different day somebody else's challenge may be on another day but at the end of the day if you're watching this video you made it to the end of this video and you feel convicted and if something that you want to get on a 7-Day challenge with me let me know in my email jaag glob gmail.com and also Instagram at lifecoach I want to see how I can help y'all okay so hey this month this of yeah I'm going to look look I'm doing this

vocally on camera so I can tell y'all this this month of December I'm looking to see if I can keep giving y'all some videos on a consistent base I want to say this publicly so I can be accountable so I got planned to upload a video every single day this week um some coaching some motivation but also what I'm also doing is I want to reel more people in so that I can serve you all you know the word says that my sheep hear my voice and I believe that if the Lord is speaking through me and you hear his voice speaking through me and you know that I'm somebody

that could be your coach I'm somebody that can help counsel you let me be the individual that can help you and serve you this season because so many leaders right now are going through breakthroughs and what we're doing is we're renewing our mind we're not looking at the junk that we used to look at before we're not doing the things that we used to do before we're not we're not we're not doing none of those things we're pushing forward and I want to push forward with more leaders this season so y'all if that's you let's go let's rock let's do this thing and so if you're watching this right now

I just need you to know FP Philippians 4:8 like what are you focused on where is your mind at what's taking your mind what's taking your peace what I realize right now in this season my peace is too important to go back to fall short to the things that I used to fall short to my peace is too important my mind is too important controlling my emotions and it's too important and am I perfect n I'm just like y'all I cry I get angry but the word says be angry yet sin not so God knows you're going to get angry God knows you going to feel these host of emotions

that you're going through that lack of self-control sometimes is going to try to win but be angry yet s not and if you're angry once again take a moment to take a moment to pray and dependent on where you are if you can have a moment to pray cuz you just that turned up take a moment to flee and you be the bigger person because of that you don't want to do a thing that's going to grieve your the Holy Ghost that's going to grieve the spirit you don't want to do do that forgive yourself when you fall short forgive yourself during this time of the seven-day challenge if one

day you end up slipping up all right forgive yourself and have Grace cuz God has Grace on you and if you're a Believer by forgiving yourself it's about repenting like Lord I repent for my sin I repent for for saying that I was going to do this thing that I I just never been capable of doing this is tough this is strong but Lord I need you to forgive me I need you to forgive me you see my leaders the reality of this thing is that if if God has forgiven you which he has you got to learn to let go and forgive yourself you got to have Gra on

yourself you got to have Grace please so my leaders think on things that are pure let's read this together Philippians 4:8 I'm reading out of KJV last time let's read it together finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of a good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things my leaders let's pray heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ father we come to you today as Leaders who are imperfect imperfect beings looking to be perfected father your word says in Hebrews chapter 5

that you were perfected Jesus was perfected through through suffering the things that he suffered perfected him so if God was perfected through suffering how much more so will we be perfected through suffering so father I'm praying for the leader that suffering of pornography right now I'm praying for the leader who is suffering from anger who's suffering from addiction who's suffering from alcohol who's suffering from these other torments right now Lord I'm praying that in this season they learn to forgive themsel and they have Grace on thems God but Lord I'm praying that you would give us the strength to mount up and do this together let this leader not think

that they got to do this by themselves and father I'm praying that when they feel these Temptations to go into a path that they're not supposed to go into that they begin to think about the things that are pure and in order to think about the things that are pure they begin to feel their mind mind with what the word says what does the word say about your situation what does the word say about you what does the word say about things that are just what does the word thing say about things that are true what does the word say about things that are honest what does the word say

about things that are pure what does the word say about things to be praised what does the word say about virtue what does the word word say about how to think right what does the word say so father I'm praying that we will begin to lean on your word even more these next seven days that we don't try to do this 7day challenge by ourselves cuz we tried to do this by ourselves this whole time we've been trying for so long and we've been faing and felling and felling but Lord I'm declaring victory in this video in Jesus name I'm declaring Victory in Jesus name so father I just want

to say that we love you thank you for guiding this leader to this video be with us as we do this 7day Challenge and reveal to us what we can do to continuously improve our lives we love you we thank you and it's in Jesus mighty name that we pray amen amen my leaders I love you but Jesus Christ loves you more if you begin to think on things that are pure and you'll know because you'll have a sense of Peace your peace is very important you begin to think on things that are pure that are true that are just that are a virtue and you remain focused on what

God's truth is saying about your situation well God's truth is saying about you what God's truth is declaring over your life I'm a firm believer that you will remain consistent Within These next s days in your life will be changed all right my leaders I love you we out