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上周，我分享了主如何帮助我增强耐心的个人经历。本周，我们将了解仅仅专注于一件事如何帮助我们在其他领域取得突破，甚至那是我们没有关注的事情。

这实际上是一种军事策略，对我们的个人生活有很大帮助。这就是所谓的“集中兵力”。这是沿敌线集中兵力在一处突破的战术。一旦你突破了敌人的防线，他们的整个部队就必须撤退，以免被分割或包围。这实际上是最常见、最成功的军事战术。它对我们个人有何帮助呢？

大多数基督徒仍然有数百个问题需要解决。魔鬼的策略是让我们试图同时解决每一个问题，这将使他“消耗圣徒“的整体策略获得成功。但圣灵只注重一件，或最多两件让我们做的事，因为我们知道，若我们在一件事上有所突破，就会导致仇敌在一切事上退缩。

例如，当我专注于需要更多耐心时，我惊讶地发现我的信心增加了不少。我们在希伯来书6章12节看到，“我们藉着信心和忍耐承受应许··”这两种特质一起发挥作用。因此，如果你开始在一个方面突破，另一方面也会取得突破，反过来又会造成其他方面的突破。当我对别人更有耐心时，我会注意到他们身上的一切事情，这些事情让我更加欣赏，甚至更加爱他们。

当我的耐心越来越多时，我就会在上帝的平安中显著成长。这使我能够更加接近主，更好听到他引导的声音，让一切变得更好。我们还被告知“赐平安的神快要把撒旦践踏在我们脚下。”（罗16:20）所以胜利开始在许多其他领域出现。

如果你问我最大的缺点是什么，我可能不会说是耐心。然而，主知道我的不耐烦如何影响了几乎所有其他事情–我看待人的方式，我看不见他的方式，以及这如何影响我在几乎所有事情上的行为。当我在我认为只要多一点点耐心的事情上成长时，我可以在我甚至没有关注过的其他领域得到显著成果。重点是我们必须让主在这方面带领我们。他能看到我们看不到的东西，以及我们看不到的东西是如何在许多方面成为我们进步的关键。正如保罗在哥林多前书4:3-4中所写的：“你们或者人间的法庭审问我，对我们来说实在是小事；事实上，我甚至自己都不审视自己。因为我并没有看到自己有什么不义，可并没有因此而被宣称无罪。但鉴察我的是主。”

保罗在哥林多后书13：5中写道：“你们要省察自己有信心没有；也要自己审视！”但在上面的文字中，他说他没有审视自己。到底他认可哪一个？

有些地方我们必须省察自己，有些地方我们不需要。我们有符合圣经的方式来评判他人，也有不符合圣经的方式。我们将研究这些，现在我们将重点关注我们评判自己的方式，以及我们不评判自己的方式.

哥林多前书11:31告诉我们，“若我们先正确审判自己，就不会被审判。”圣经清楚说明了这世界将要受到审判的原因，以及我们本该知道的事情却做错了。如果我们正在做这些事情，我们可以通过这些事情来审判自己。有些过错或罪可能比较模糊，但他赐给我们圣灵来使我们知罪。答案是悔改，并远离我们被告知的世界将要受审判的罪。这样我们就不会与世界一起受审判。

Last week, I shared a personal experience of how the Lord is helping me grow in patience.  This week, we will look at how just focusing on one thing it can help us have a breakthrough in may other areas, even things we are not focusing on.

This is actually a military tactic that can help us greatly in our personal life.  It’s called “concentration of forces.”  This is the tactic of concentrating forces at one place along the enemy line to create a breakthrough.  Once you have penetrated an enemy line, their whole force has to retreat to keep from being divided or surrounded.  This is actually the most common and most successful military tactic.  How can it help us personally?

Most Christians still have hundreds of things wrong with them.  It is the devil’s tactic to have us trying to fix every one of them at the same time, which will enable his overall strategy to “wear out the saints” to succeed.  However, the Holy Spirit will just focus on one or at the most two things for us to work on, knowing that if we have a breakthrough in one thing, it will result in the enemy having to retreat on everything.

For example, when I focused on my need for more patience, I was surprised by how much my faith increased.  We see in Hebrews 6:12 how it is by “faith and patience that we inherit the promises…” These two qualities work together, so if you start having a breakthrough in one, you will in the other, which will in turn create other breakthroughs.  When I became more patient with others, I would notice things about them that caused me to appreciate or even love them more.

As patience worked in me more, I would grow noticeably in the peace of God.  This caused me to be able to walk much closer to the Lord, hear His voice for directions better, which made everything go better.  We are also told that the “God of peace will soon crush Satan under our feet” (Romans 16:20), so victories started to come in many other areas.

If you had asked me what my worst flaw was, I would not likely have said patience.  However, the Lord knew how my impatience was affecting almost everything else—the way I saw people, the way I failed to see Him, and how this affected my actions in almost everything.  As I grew in what I thought was just a tiny bit more patience, I could see major results in other areas to which I had not even given attention.  The point is that we must let the Lord lead us in this.  He can see things we can’t, and how something we do not even see as related can be the key to our progress in many ways.  As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 4:3-4, “But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court;  in fact, I do not even examine myself.  For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted;  but the one who examines me is the Lord.”

Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith;  examine yourselves!”  But in the text above, he says that he does not examine himself.  Which is it?

There are ways that we must examine ourselves, and ways that we don’t.  There are biblical ways for us to judge others, and ways that we don’t.  We will study these, but for now we will focus on the ways that we judge ourselves, and ways we don’t.

We are told in 1 Corinthians 11:31, “But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.”  The Scriptures are clear about the reasons why the world is going to be judged and the things we should know are wrong.  We can judge ourselves in these things if we are doing them.  There are some faults or sins that may be a little more ambiguous, and He has given us the Holy Spirit to convict us of these.  The answer is to repent and turn away from the sins we are told the world will be judged for, so that we will not be judged with the world.