One of the reasons we lose the ability to cope is that we're living for the wrong world.

Dr. Tony Evans says we need to shift our priority from the temporal to the eternal.

You and I are supposed to be living in this world not for this world.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Rule number one in many sports is to keep your eye on the ball, but Dr. Evans says when it comes to faith it's pretty easy to get distracted by, well, just about anything.

Let's join him as he examines how to develop a spiritual eyesight that remains focused.

Numbers of times in scripture we find the concern of people wanting to quit where they're raising the question, am I going to be able to move forward? Am I going to be able to get out of this?

Paul says in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16, therefore we do not lose heart.

What was some of the things Paul was dealing with? If you back up a few verses he says in verse 8 we are afflicted in every way.

He says in verse 9, persecuted.

He says in verse 10, carrying out about in the body the dying of Jesus.

In fact, he says in verse 12, death works in us.

He's going through some very negative realities and he's got the audacity to say, but we don't lose heart.

So if you're here today or one day and you're ready to throw in the towel, quit, give up, walk away.

I want to say to you today so that you can not only use it for yourself but give it to somebody else.

Paul statement, we do not lose heart.

So no matter how bad it is, how big it is and how long it's been, we do not lose heart.

But what is going to keep you sane when circumstances are driving you crazy?

What's going to keep you on top when you're being sucked down underneath?

What's going to keep you in your right mind when you feel like you are losing your mind?

You must be able to look at things differently.

As painful as the fainting may be.

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