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2. Attention Deficit Disorder

3. The Principle of the Path
Direction - not intention - determines destination

4. Attention Determines Direction

5. Grab Attention!
The things that grab my attention OFTEN are the things I should avoid.
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6. Give Attention! Emotions fuel the things that grab our attention
Direction fuels the things that we give our attention
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7. Pay Attention!
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Problem: pay implies cost

8. Attention ➔ Direction ➔ Destination

9. New International Version
Deuteronomy 7: 12
12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.
Deuteronomy 7: 12

10. 35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.
New International Version
Psalm 119:35
35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.
Psalm 119:35

11. New International Version
Psalm 119:37
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.
Psalm 119:37

12. New International Version
Proverbs 4:25
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25

13. New International Version
Matthew 6:22-23
22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
Matthew 6:22-23

14. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
New International Version
Matthew 6:22-23
If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:22-23

15. New International Version
Hebrews 2:1
1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Hebrews 2:1

16. Application: Things and people I should pay LESS attention to...
Things and people I should pay MORE attention to...
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17. Attention ➔ Direction ➔ Destination

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