78. How to Not Waste Your Most Valuable Asset

Who has your attention?

In a world where screens, money, health, worries, ambitions, and countless other forces compete for our focus, John Ortberg asks a deeper question: Who is my master?

Psalm 143 teaches us how to pay attention to God through two important practices: focused attention and open attention.

John explores why attention is so powerful, how what we consistently attend to can actually change us, and how we can learn to notice God's presence throughout an ordinary day.

The invitation is simple:

Pay attention to the God who is already paying attention to you.

In this episode: Psalm 143 • attention • distraction • spiritual formation • neuroscience • noticing God

#Psalm143 #JohnOrtberg #SpiritualFormation #Attention #Psalms #ChristianFaith

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00:00 Pay Very Careful Attention
 00:12 Are You Still With Me?
 00:31 Attention Is Something We Pay
 00:55 Who Is Your Master?
 01:18 God Is Paying Attention to You
 01:39 Two Kinds of Attention
 02:01 How Attention Changes Your World
 02:28 How Do You Attend to Other People?
 02:49 Attention Changes You
 03:15 You Become More Like What You Attend To
 03:45 Focused Attention
 04:14 How a Bird Pays Attention
 04:42 Open Attention
 05:09 Two Very Different Ways of Seeing
 05:33 Seeing Yourself as Part of Something Bigger
 05:56 The Fellowship of Toads 😂
 06:22 Why We Need Both Kinds of Attention
 06:41 Psalm 143: God, Hear Me
 06:53 Paying Attention to What's Wrong in Me
 07:17 Taking an Honest Inventory
 07:35 Who Is the Enemy?
 08:02 When the Enemy Is Inside Me
 08:30 Remember, Meditate, Consider
 09:24 Learning to Pay Attention to God
 09:48 God Is Paying Attention to Me
 10:06 Let the Morning Bring Me Word
 10:27 Show Me, Rescue Me, Teach Me, Lead Me
 10:51 Open Your Attention to God
 11:16 Focus on What's in Front of You
 11:39 God, How Are You Here?
 11:57 Who Is My Master?