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WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To follow this blog, click here.  If this blog has blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! ______________________________________           Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post:   https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/WWW_Podcast_07272020_Are_You_Majoring_in_the_Minors_.mp3   ______________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 27, 2020. Today’s Podcast is Episode #30 in Series 2020 and is titled “Are You Majoring in the Minors?". _______________________________________________ In the first of his three letters, the Apostle John wrote: "Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever." The problem today is that most people are not obeying this command not to love the world. They are so attached to this world and to what it can offer them that they are not paying attention to what is really happening in this world and to where they are headed. To love the world is to major in the minors, for this world will soon pass away. And so will you! So, perhaps it's time you shift your perspective and start majoring on the majors. But what are the majors? And how can you know if you are majoring in them? Here are some clues: 1. Is the word "busy" the most often used word in your vocabulary? Are you constantly saying you're busy? Too busy? Are you focusing on your to-do list to the exclusion of your relationships, especially your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you even have a relationship with Jesus? One of Satan's chief tactics is to keep us too busy for a relationship with God. Don't fall into that dangerous trap. 2. Has distraction taken over in your life? Have you become too distracted to think about spiritual things, like where you will go after you die? Does that even matter to you? When the thought of death comes, do you brush it off?  3. Are you following the false teaching that your main goal is to create a great life for yourself here on earth? That your best life is now? What about success after you leave this earth? Do you think about that at all? And do you know what success after this life is all about? 4. Do you refuse to listen when Christ-Followers warn you of what's coming ahead? Do you find that kind of discussion too overwhelming, so you tune them out, branding them as crazy alarmists?  Denial of reality is one of the ways human beings cope, but we cannot and must not deny the truth of what Jesus predicted would happen in the last days. We must prepare for it. In fact, we have already begun to live it through the current lockdown and increasing assault on our Constitutional rights and religious freedom.   5. Are you attending a church where the pastor never talks about the end times? Does your pastor avoid the Book of Revelation? Does he avoid preaching on sin? Is his goal only to make you feel good when you leave the service? If so, beware.  6. Are you obsessed with social justice here on this earth? Are you focused on saving the planet? It sounds so good, yet it keeps you focused on this world and not on the next.