I recently memorized Psalm 86:1-13. I love David’s prayer in verse 11. It says, “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; united my heart to fear Your name.” He was asking the Lord to give him singleness of heart.

Distractions pull us off course and steal our fruit potential. In Revelation 2:19 the Lord commended the church in Thyatira. It says, “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.”

Yet they allowed sin to creep in and bring inner defilement. We can apply this to our own lives. I think of Mark 4 in the parable of the sower. Verse 19 Amplified says, “Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age,…and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.”