In Your Bible Read This
Ecclesiastes 3
Here Is Your Memory Verse
As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me.
Night is coming, when no-one can work. John 9.4
Afterwards Talk About
This
Be honest with each other. How you are managing with time for
Jesus,
family, rest and the boss. Who gets the most?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Make a special effort to arrange some quality time for the
family,
or for parents if you have neglected them. Do something special
together,
not necessarily spending money, but using the time for each other.
Written Diploma Work
Keep an honest diary for a week to record how each half hour
is spent,
whether on God, family, rest, work, other things or wasted.
Evaluate and suggest changes.
Meditate
Word By Word On This Verse
Galatians 6, 9-10
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For Yemenis - 16,000,000
Gulf Arabs, 99.9% Muslim
- Yemen once had many
Christians
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray
and prepare well adding
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your own verses and stories to
bring it to life.
Time is very unique. If your house burns
down you can rebuild it. If your bank fails you can make the
money again. If your animal dies you can always replace it.
If You Lose Time It Has
Gone Forever.
Solomon wrote that there is a time for
every human activity and he also said that a wise man will know
the proper time and procedure for every matter. Ecclesiastes 8.5.
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Who Are The Winners In Life?
The race is not to the swift or the
battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or
wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned; but
time and chance happen to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11
The Gift Of Time.
God gives 24 hours of time equally to every
person, every day. The race of life is not won by the swift or
the wise but by the person who makes best use of time.
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Redeem, Buy Back The Time
Redeem the time,
because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5.16.
To finish the race we must neither
waste precious time nor become so busy that we become
driven people. Believers should live ordered, God
glorifying lives and carry around a unique atmosphere of
peace and eternity even when busy.
I Hope This Is Not You
A driven person usually has a cluttered
room, an untidy car, a lack of self esteem, fears discovery,
forgets appointments, double books, leaves messages unanswered,
fails to meet deadlines, breaks promises, feels bad about his
work, has little intimacy with God and poor personal
relationships, sleeps badly and is stressed.
Who Wants Your Time?
God does to begin with and so does your
family, your body and your boss, not necessarily in that order.
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Quality Time For God Means
Silence and solitude.
Listening to God.
Reflection and meditation
This allows eternity to get into your
heart and saves you from being driven.
Quality Time For Your Family Means
Time for husbands, wives and children
to enjoy each other.
Time to honour mother and father,
whatever age you are. Matthew 15.4
In this way love gets into your life
and saves you from being driven.
Quality Rest And Re-Creation Means
The 1 in 7 principle, Exodus 34.21
The come apart or fall apart principle,
Mark 6.31
Are your holidays, holydays?
If you do these things then peace gets
into your life and saves you from being driven.
Quality Use Of Time At Work Means
Handling time consuming papers and
people properly. You spend more time at work than
anywhere else except asleep, so handling the things that
swallow time can make a big difference.
How To Make Work Run
Much Better.
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Handle Papers Properly
Divide all incoming papers into four
baskets:
Action needed now.
Information for later actions
Background knowledge for reading.
Scrap - straight to the bin.
Deal with file 1 now, and see the rest
later when you have more time.
Remember that filing is so you can find things later, so as soon as
any file becomes 3 cms thick, divide it with all the papers same way round.
Handle Precious People Patiently
Papers often make us so busy and
frustrated that people who are the reason for any
workplace are often treated in a second class way. Even
before you speak remember that your body language speaks
more loudly than any words, and then your tone of voice
gives all your feelings away before you say any words.Here
are the graces, six ways to redeem the
time at work by receiving people properly.
Greet them only. Keep working.
Receive them politely. Don't
sit down 15 minutes will soon be gone.
Accompany them to the right
person.
Confer with them. Give them
your top quality time, fixed by appointment.
Engage with them. For very
important issues you forget the diary.
Say goodbye if they are
time wasters and never listen to what you say.
A Simple Notebook And A
Diary
Will help you organise all the things you
have to do. Look at it before the day starts. Ask these questions
about the jobs to do:
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Is it Urgent and Important? Do it.
Action today.
Is it Not Urgent and Important? Delay
it. Pick it up later.
Is it Urgent & Not Important? Delegate
it. Let someone learn.
Is it Not Important and Not Urgent? Ditch
it. Why do it at all?
Don't be afraid to plan in time with the
Lord, yourself and the family. Unplanned time will be seized
either by dominant people, your undisciplined areas or by whoever
shouts loudest. Order at work saves you from being driven and
gives you more time and energy for Jesus, family and yourself.
- Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
Saudi Arabia
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
|
Mahra (South Arabic) |
Mahri |
17,000
|
Persian (Irani) |
Farsi, Western |
120,000
|
Turk |
Turkish |
17,000
|
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