I believe if you'll follow these six things it will change your life it'll radically change your life
and you'll maximize time in your life and you'll fulfill your destiny
your destiny on this earth by God is how you use your time
six tips for maximizing your time if you have your bible look at Ephesians 5
Ephesians 5 14 and normally i read from the new king james version but today i'm going to read
from the king james version because of a word that the king james version uses that
is where i want to launch from on six tips for maximizing your time
verse 14
so first of all Paul is saying to the Ephesians wake up you gotta wake up from your stupor wake up
from your sleepiness and some of you out there are mentally emotionally physically
and spiritually asleep and i want to challenge you to
wake up wake up and arise from the dead and let Christ shine on you so what we're going to talk
about here are six tips where Christ can shine on you but you have to wake up you have to wake up
and use your time wisely then in verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as
wise in other words evaluate your life he's saying reevaluate your life here walk live out your time
management by reevaluating your life not as a fool but as someone who's using wisdom and here's the
key verse redeeming the time write that down redeeming the time because the days are evil
wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the lord is remember what i said
earlier on my previous message i talked about that time is currency we talk about spending money
we talk about spending time so this currency that God's given you can be redeemed now this is
important what do i mean by redeemed well before i give a definition of that let me explain a little
bit about my life i was a high school athlete my sophomore year i started getting involved in
gymnastics and i began to believe through some of the gymnastics meets that i went to and then
watching the olympics that year that i could be a state champion in gymnastics and the all-around
so as a sophomore i made that my goal and what did that do what it did is it caused me to redeem
my time i began to realize that i knew who i was going to be competing against i knew about
um these these other gymnasts and other high schools and how good they were and how
far removed i was from i wasn't even i wasn't even in the gym with these guys they had been
doing gymnastics for years and years i had just gotten started but there was still this kernel
of faith in me that said i think i think i can be as good as they are if not better
so i began to re-evaluate my time and i remember taking out a spiral notebook
and writing down my schedule nobody talked to me about a schedule but i began to keep a schedule
and i began to think through what i ate what i drank who i hung out with and my life began to
change because i wanted to be a state champion and then when i got saved when i came to know the lord
as a freshman at university of georgia i took that same maximizing of my time that i'd learned
in high school and i began to apply it into my christian faith that is disciple of jesus and
get up early and spend time with the lord so um what does redeem mean well deem means to own
something you deem that's where we get the word deed you own something that means that redeem
means to re-own or re-control so redeem paul says redeeming the time means that we can take
ownership of our time and we can re-own it we can battle more we can fight more
for the use of our time and i would challenge you folks to write
down what I'm about to give you six tips for maximizing your time I believe if you'll follow
these six things it will change your life it'll radically change your life and you'll
maximize time in your life and you'll fulfill your destiny your destiny on this earth by
God is how you use your time so here's the first this is number one make the first thing
your first thing make the first thing your first thing so Jesus said in Matthew six twenty
five through thirty three he said look you worry about all these things you're always
worried about this you're worried about that he says but if you'll seek first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness all these other things will be added unto you in other words
if you will make the priority my priority if you'll make the priority the kingdom of
God seeking me getting to know me and love me if that will become your priority I'll
take care of all these secondary issues those things will fall into place and I can tell
you right now just in any example I gave earlier this was this was really true in my life with
gymnastics so as I began to evaluate my life with the goal of being the best gymnast that
I could be that changed me physically that began to change me mentally that began to
change me emotionally not so much spiritually that came later but it's amazing what what
a positive and good priority can do to actually change all the other secondary things in your
life things flow out of having high goals and going after it so make the first thing
your first thing and that's to seek first the kingdom of God number two get some bloodstained
allies number two get some bloodstained allies and what I mean by that is get some men and
women in your life so men men women women in your life that are allies that have the
same goals you have the same vision you have but they're bloodstained in other words they
are people who have experienced hardship they've experienced difficulties in their life they
understand what you're going through they're not going to cut and run when things get tough
but they're going to be there for you you really need men and women like that we do
not do well as human beings in isolation you show me any man who's committed suicide or
thought about suicide I'll show you a man who feels isolated feels like they don't have
any friends and God wants you to have friends he gave you friendship he said to Adam it's
good that man not be alone so God has not put us on this earth to be alone he wants
us to have community with you that's why he created the church the church is about family
and about community number three get healthy physically in other words get a routine I
said that the last time I spoke on this but you gotta have a you gotta have a routine
man you gotta stay in shape you know you show me a man who's in shape and I'll show
you a man who's got a thousand wishes you show me a man who is out of shape and unhealthy
and I'll show you a man who won't be able to do any hard things as he gets older and
he's gonna lose all zest for living so first make the first thing your first thing number
two get some bloodstained allies number three get healthy physically and number four keep
learning read read read I can't say enough about reading listening to good podcast filling
your mind with history with good things with sociology psychology all that's really good
some of it's not helpful but be a truth seeker and by so being a truth seeker keep learning
when the COVID virus came through and everybody was freaking out and and it was just an epidemic
of fear you know in my opinion COVID was not the epidemic COVID was not the pandemic the
pandemic was all the fear that caused the virus to find a home in so many people's lives
because they were releasing toxins into their bloodstream because they were so fearful versus
those that were courageous those that were strong those who kept learning what was going
on and began to understand how to stay healthy they built up their immune system and became
strong so keep learning be around people who are learning read great books it keeps you
on the edge keeps you on the cutting it also builds great confidence in your life when
you know that you're living by the truth number five when you get knocked down get back up
you say what that's what kind of a what kind of a maximizing your time is that well I'm
talking about a mindset that when you get
knocked down you determined you're going to get back up and not quit you're not
going to stop because listen folks everybody gets knocked down everybody I
bet you everybody on this earth has had times in their life at least they feel
like this and actually might be true that they're at the count of nine I mean
they were almost knocked out of life but they got back up again so number five
build a mentality I'm gonna get back up again and the number six and this is a
phrase that I've talked about in another podcast called bring it on so start
saying when troubles come bring it on start saying when trials come your way
bring it on say in your life when you're getting sick or you're going to pray for
someone or you get around someone who's sick bring it on in other words I'm not
gonna quit I'm not gonna stop bring it on I'm strong enough for this and so
redeem your time men and women redeem that means re-own, re-control, take
authority of your life make the first thing your first thing number two get
blood-stained allies number three get healthy physically number four keep
learning number five when you get knocked down get back up and the number
six say bring it on you should say bring it on every day first thing in the
morning when you get up and bring it on soon as a hardship comes your way bring
it on when difficulties come your way bring it on don't quit so this is some
of the ways that we maximize our time and the maximum use of your time is how
you maximize your impact and your destiny on this earth