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Take Control of Your Time (3)

‘I must work…while it is day…’ John 9:4 NKJV Time is like money; it must be budgeted. That means determining the difference between the fixedwhat you must do-and the discretionarywhat you would like to do. What caused Jesus to be such an organised person? (1) He understood His mission. During His final walk toward Jerusalem […]

Take Control of Your Time (2)

‘Teach us to realise the brevity of life’ Psalm 90:12 NLT Gordon MacDonald gives us some of the traits of a disorganised life. See if you recognise any: ‘(1) Appointments/messages/deadlines missed. I know I’m disorganised when there are a series of forgotten appointments, telephone messages to which I have failed to respond, and deadlines which […]

Take Control of Your Time (1)

‘Walk in wisdom…redeeming the time.’ Colossians 4:5 NKJV Nothing is more costly than wasted time. Every minute lost is gone forever. Today we have more time-saving devices than any other generation, yet we seem to have less time. To get control of your life you must first get control of your time. That means redirecting […]

Be Holy

‘…Be holy in all you do.’ 1 Peter 1:15 NIV Holiness isn’t a subject we hear much about these days. So, what does it mean to ‘be holy’? First, let’s understand what it doesn’t mean: (1) It doesn’t isolate you from the world, it insulates you against its negative influences. (2) It’s not a scorecard […]

Living for Others

‘…Through love serve one another.’ Galatians 5:13 NKJV Jacques Cousteau, the famous French maritime explorer, said, ‘If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.’ Jesus lived that way. He said, ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His […]

Have You Lost Your Focus?

‘…He prayed that he might die’ 1 Kings 19:4 NKJV Sometimes after ‘giving it your all’, you can end up totally drained. Look at Elijah. God used him on Mt. Carmel to call down fire from Heaven on the prophets of Baal. Yet he fell apart under Jezebel’s threats. Fleeing for his life, he ‘…sat […]

Say ‘No!’

‘…Just say a simple…no’ James 5:12 NLT When you don’t learn to say no, you end up disliking yourself, as well as the people you are trying to please. In some cases we have difficulty saying it because we’re afraid people won’t like us. In other cases we believe that to be ‘a good Christian’ […]

Seek Reconciliation

‘…Go and be reconciled’ Matthew 5:24 NIV Sometimes the only way to get over your hurt feelings is to seek reconciliation. And if you are willing, God will help you do it. Dinah Craik wrote: ‘Oh…the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them […]

Be Willing to Face the Truth

‘The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.’ Proverbs 20:12 NKJV Dr. Howard Hendricks, a church growth expert, was once asked to diagnose the declining membership in a certain church. After attending service for several weeks he met with the board of elders and said, ‘Put a fence around it […]

Developing Patience

‘…Trouble produces patience’ Romans 5:3 NCV How do you develop patience? Through trouble! When your honesty seems to go unnoticed, when your hard work seems to go unrewarded, when your kindness is rendered without thanks, when your helping hand is offered and ignored, when even love is refused-that’s when patience shines in all its beauty. […]