Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

Thanks for joining. Let's get started.

So today we want to change gears just a little bit.

We started in episode one by just talking about the resolve to just get better. Before we can put any

strategies or tips in place so that you can see progress, you have to decide that you

want to see progress. We discussed how Christians grow, and we asked you to make some lists

of things that you want to continue to grow in or begin growing in. So we hope that you did that.

We came back in the second episode and

discussed our first piece of information on how to make that happen. What we talked about is how

every day of the 16 or so waking hours that you have, you need to set aside one of those to focus

on God, God's will for your life, and your plan for the day. I talk to you about how I put mine

at the very beginning of the day. I pray to God. I think about God. I read the word of God. I write

down things that God is showing me in scripture, spend a little quality time in conversation with

the wife, and lay out the plans for the day.

Hope you found that effective.

You know, in Ephesians 5, just to remind you, Ephesians 5 talks about how we need to make the most of our time.

We need to make the most of our time every day because the days are evil.

That is, they pass very quickly, our youth passes very quickly, and we want to be able to

look back and see big differences.

What we didn't talk about last time was the content of Ephesians 5.

He said, because the days are evil, here's how you need to use every day.

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