How Are You Using Your Time

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How Are You Using Your Time?
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• Then He spoke a parable to them, saying "The
  ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.
  17 And he thought within himself, saying, 'What
  shall I do, since I have no room to store my
  crops?' Luke 1216-17 (NKJV)

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• So he said, 'I will do this I will pull down my
  barns and build greater, and there I will store
  all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to
  my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for
  many years take your ease eat, drink, and be
  merry." Luke 1218-19 (NKJV)

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•  But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul
  will be required of you then whose will those
  things be which you have provided?' 21 So is he
  who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
  toward God." Luke 1220-21 (NKJV)

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• God has put us on earth for a reason!
• redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
  Eph 516 (NKJV)

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• If you see life as a party then your goal will be
  to have fun
• If you see it as a race then you will always be
  in a hurry

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• If you see it as a marathon you will value
  endurance.
• If you see it as a game you will see winning as
  the most imp thing

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• Life is like
• A test
• A trust
• A Temporary assignment

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• 1. Time has a lifetime
• Vs 19 . I have plenty of time
• Someone asked Billy Graham what was the greatest
  surprise of life? He said, the brevity of life.

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• For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As
  were all our fathers Our days on earth are as a
  shadow, And without hope. 1 Chron 2915 (NKJV)
•  I loathe my life I would not live forever. Let
  me alone, For my days are but a breath. Job 716
  (NKJV)

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• Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
  And my age is as nothing before You Certainly
  every man at his best state is but vapor. Psalms
  395 (NKJV)
• whereas you do not know what will happen
  tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a
  vapor that appears for a little time and then
  vanishes away. James 414 (NKJV)

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• 2. Didnt understand the purpose of time
• Vs 18. build bigger barns.
• His whole life was centered on self, whats in it
  for me.

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• Billy Graham, Time is the capital that God has
  given us to invest. People are the stocks in
  which we are to invest our time, whether they are
  blue chips or penny stocks or even junk bonds.

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• What are you doing today that will last in
  eternity?
• What is your Passion?

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• 3. God holds us accountable for the use of our
  time.
• Vs.20 this night your life will be taken

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• 4. He left it all behind
• Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his
  head and he fell to the ground and worshiped.
  21 And he said "Naked I came from my mother's
  womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord
  gave, and the Lord has taken away Blessed be the
  name of the Lord." Job 120-21 (NKJV)

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• Ways to better use your time to grow spiritually.
• A. Growth takes time.
• B. Small steps

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• C. Stay the course
• D. Iron sharpens Iron
• E. Plan your day
• So teach us to number our days, That we may gain
  a heart of wisdom. Psalms 9012 (NKJV)

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• F. Learn to keep first things first
• Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
  tomorrow will worry about its own things.
  Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matt
  634 (NKJV)

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• G. Do it now
• Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know
  what a day may bring forth. Prov 271 (NKJV)

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• H. Learn to delegate
• Both you and these people who are with you will
  surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too
  much for you you are not able to perform it by
  yourself. Ex 1818 (NKJV)

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• I. Learn to evaluate
•  Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell
  in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and
  the sea! For the devil has come down to you,
  having great wrath, because he knows that he has
  a short time." Rev 1212 (NKJV)

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• J. Understand the tyranny of the urgent
•  So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed
  two more days in the place where He was. John
  116 (NKJV)

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• Ben Franklin, Do you love life, then do not
  squander time, for thats the stuff life is made
  of.

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