OCTOBER 22 , 2006

I. Result -driven time management is the most productive way at looking at time…In contrast, “live for the day” prompts haphazard, feeling -driven time management, with little or no focus on purpose to give meaning and significance to life.

The greatest enemy of good time management is procrastination

1. Understand the difference between what's urgent and what's important .

2. You can also share the things you have to do with others.

3. Plan ahead.

4. Construct a “to do” list and then prioritize that list.

5. Find out how you really spend your time by using a time log.

Logging your time – You might have these categories:

a) Essential to your family, job and relationship with God.

b) Important to your family, job and relationship with God.

c) Urgent

d) Routine

e) Leisure

f) Wasters.

6. Record your energy level with your activity.

7. Set goals for yourself.

  Make each goal a positive thing, not a negative.

  Set dates and amounts so that you can measure achievement.

  Set priorities when you have several goals.

  Write your goals down. This gives them more force in your mind.

  Keep goals achievable and unrealistic, but do challenge yourself. Don't set goals too low.

  Set goals in areas where have some degree of control or influence.

Set SMART goals:

S Specific

M Measurable

   A Attainable

   R Relevant

   T Time target

So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step (1 Cor 9:25, NLT).

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence!

II. Does God's Word speak to time management?

Teach us to make the most of our time – that we may gain a heart of wisdom …and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful! (Ps 90:12 & 17). How do we make our efforts successful?

•  Steward time. We steward time when we prioritize it. TBS, There is a time fore everything, and a season for every activity under Heaven.

B. We best use God's gift of time to prepare for eternity. God has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

We are right now participants in our eternity; we are determining how we will spend our eternity. True success comes from Godly wisdom in making the most of our time on earth.

God rewards the faithful stewardship of time. Day by day the Lord observes the good deeds done by Godly men, and gives them eternal rewards. (Ps 37:18, LB). Knowing that helps us to prioritize time according to His purpose.

The question for every Christ-follower is not where we will spend eternity, but how we will spend eternity.

That foundation is Jesus Christ… If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day (the Judgment Day with Christ as the believer's Judge) will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss (1 Cor 3:11-15).

We make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (2 Cor 5:9-10).

We must prepare for eternity, and God has given only this one lifetime to do that. Jesus said, Lay up treasures for ourselves in heaven, where rust or moth cannot corrupt and thieves cannot break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matt 6:20-21).

C. By what measure will all Christ-followers life be judged? Jesus said, the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day (John 12:48).

As we live in God, our love grows more mature. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment , because we can face God with confidence because we live like Jesus in this world…So we love each other because he loved us first. (1 John 4:17, 19).

Jesus said: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like it:

'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Matt 22:37-39, NIV)

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