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
- Be
sure to teach this lesson to others.
- Always
pray and prepare well adding
- 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.
To Close Pray
For The
World's Most Unreached Peoples By Name
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
|
|