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I believe if you'll follow these six things it will change your life it'll radically change your life

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and you'll maximize time in your life and you'll fulfill your destiny

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your destiny on this earth by God is how you use your time

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six tips for maximizing your time if you have your bible look at Ephesians 5

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Ephesians 5 14 and normally i read from the new king james version but today i'm going to read

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from the king james version because of a word that the king james version uses that

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is where i want to launch from on six tips for maximizing your time

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verse 14

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so first of all Paul is saying to the Ephesians wake up you gotta wake up from your stupor wake up

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from your sleepiness and some of you out there are mentally emotionally physically

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and spiritually asleep and i want to challenge you to

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wake up wake up and arise from the dead and let Christ shine on you so what we're going to talk

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about here are six tips where Christ can shine on you but you have to wake up you have to wake up

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and use your time wisely then in verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as

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wise in other words evaluate your life he's saying reevaluate your life here walk live out your time

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management by reevaluating your life not as a fool but as someone who's using wisdom and here's the

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key verse redeeming the time write that down redeeming the time because the days are evil

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wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the lord is remember what i said

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earlier on my previous message i talked about that time is currency we talk about spending money

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we talk about spending time so this currency that God's given you can be redeemed now this is

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important what do i mean by redeemed well before i give a definition of that let me explain a little

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bit about my life i was a high school athlete my sophomore year i started getting involved in

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gymnastics and i began to believe through some of the gymnastics meets that i went to and then

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watching the olympics that year that i could be a state champion in gymnastics and the all-around

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so as a sophomore i made that my goal and what did that do what it did is it caused me to redeem

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my time i began to realize that i knew who i was going to be competing against i knew about

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um these these other gymnasts and other high schools and how good they were and how

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far removed i was from i wasn't even i wasn't even in the gym with these guys they had been

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doing gymnastics for years and years i had just gotten started but there was still this kernel

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of faith in me that said i think i think i can be as good as they are if not better

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so i began to re-evaluate my time and i remember taking out a spiral notebook

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and writing down my schedule nobody talked to me about a schedule but i began to keep a schedule

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and i began to think through what i ate what i drank who i hung out with and my life began to

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change because i wanted to be a state champion and then when i got saved when i came to know the lord

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as a freshman at university of georgia i took that same maximizing of my time that i'd learned

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in high school and i began to apply it into my christian faith that is disciple of jesus and

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get up early and spend time with the lord so um what does redeem mean well deem means to own

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something you deem that's where we get the word deed you own something that means that redeem

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means to re-own or re-control so redeem paul says redeeming the time means that we can take

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ownership of our time and we can re-own it we can battle more we can fight more

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for the use of our time and i would challenge you folks to write

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down what I'm about to give you six tips for maximizing your time I believe if you'll follow

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these six things it will change your life it'll radically change your life and you'll

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maximize time in your life and you'll fulfill your destiny your destiny on this earth by

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God is how you use your time so here's the first this is number one make the first thing

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your first thing make the first thing your first thing so Jesus said in Matthew six twenty

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five through thirty three he said look you worry about all these things you're always

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worried about this you're worried about that he says but if you'll seek first the kingdom

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of God and his righteousness all these other things will be added unto you in other words

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if you will make the priority my priority if you'll make the priority the kingdom of

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God seeking me getting to know me and love me if that will become your priority I'll

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take care of all these secondary issues those things will fall into place and I can tell

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you right now just in any example I gave earlier this was this was really true in my life with

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gymnastics so as I began to evaluate my life with the goal of being the best gymnast that

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I could be that changed me physically that began to change me mentally that began to

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change me emotionally not so much spiritually that came later but it's amazing what what

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a positive and good priority can do to actually change all the other secondary things in your

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life things flow out of having high goals and going after it so make the first thing

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your first thing and that's to seek first the kingdom of God number two get some bloodstained

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allies number two get some bloodstained allies and what I mean by that is get some men and

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women in your life so men men women women in your life that are allies that have the

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same goals you have the same vision you have but they're bloodstained in other words they

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are people who have experienced hardship they've experienced difficulties in their life they

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understand what you're going through they're not going to cut and run when things get tough

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but they're going to be there for you you really need men and women like that we do

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not do well as human beings in isolation you show me any man who's committed suicide or

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thought about suicide I'll show you a man who feels isolated feels like they don't have

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any friends and God wants you to have friends he gave you friendship he said to Adam it's

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good that man not be alone so God has not put us on this earth to be alone he wants

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us to have community with you that's why he created the church the church is about family

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and about community number three get healthy physically in other words get a routine I

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said that the last time I spoke on this but you gotta have a you gotta have a routine

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man you gotta stay in shape you know you show me a man who's in shape and I'll show

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you a man who's got a thousand wishes you show me a man who is out of shape and unhealthy

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and I'll show you a man who won't be able to do any hard things as he gets older and

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he's gonna lose all zest for living so first make the first thing your first thing number

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two get some bloodstained allies number three get healthy physically and number four keep

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learning read read read I can't say enough about reading listening to good podcast filling

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your mind with history with good things with sociology psychology all that's really good

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some of it's not helpful but be a truth seeker and by so being a truth seeker keep learning

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when the COVID virus came through and everybody was freaking out and and it was just an epidemic

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of fear you know in my opinion COVID was not the epidemic COVID was not the pandemic the

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pandemic was all the fear that caused the virus to find a home in so many people's lives

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because they were releasing toxins into their bloodstream because they were so fearful versus

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those that were courageous those that were strong those who kept learning what was going

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on and began to understand how to stay healthy they built up their immune system and became

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strong so keep learning be around people who are learning read great books it keeps you

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on the edge keeps you on the cutting it also builds great confidence in your life when

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you know that you're living by the truth number five when you get knocked down get back up

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you say what that's what kind of a what kind of a maximizing your time is that well I'm

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talking about a mindset that when you get

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knocked down you determined you're going to get back up and not quit you're not

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going to stop because listen folks everybody gets knocked down everybody I

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bet you everybody on this earth has had times in their life at least they feel

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like this and actually might be true that they're at the count of nine I mean

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they were almost knocked out of life but they got back up again so number five

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build a mentality I'm gonna get back up again and the number six and this is a

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phrase that I've talked about in another podcast called bring it on so start

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saying when troubles come bring it on start saying when trials come your way

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bring it on say in your life when you're getting sick or you're going to pray for

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someone or you get around someone who's sick bring it on in other words I'm not

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gonna quit I'm not gonna stop bring it on I'm strong enough for this and so

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redeem your time men and women redeem that means re-own, re-control, take

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authority of your life make the first thing your first thing number two get

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blood-stained allies number three get healthy physically number four keep

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learning number five when you get knocked down get back up and the number

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six say bring it on you should say bring it on every day first thing in the

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morning when you get up and bring it on soon as a hardship comes your way bring

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it on when difficulties come your way bring it on don't quit so this is some

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of the ways that we maximize our time and the maximum use of your time is how

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you maximize your impact and your destiny on this earth